Paul Scanlon

Technical Product Marketing Manager

Developer for 20 years. I'm now Marketing at Neon.

Publishers

All the publications I’ve contributed to.

1. 1 Gatsby
   x30
2. 2 The New Stack
   x27
3. 3 Neon
   x12
4. 4 Smashing Magazine
   x9
5. 5 Luzmo
   x5
6. 6 Netlify Developers
   x4
7. 7 Cockroach Labs
   x3
8. 8 StackBlitz
   x3
9. 9 Contentful
   x2
10. 10 SitePoint
    x2
11. 11 CSS Tricks
    x1
12. 12 Netlify
    x1
13. 13 Storybook
    x1

Latest Article

Latest articles written for external publisher.

• NEW

  Neon

  • Saturday, February 15, 2025 How to Create a Reliable Testing Dataset with pg_dump and pg_restore

  A practical guide to extracting a test dataset from Postgres using pg_dump, pg_restore and psql As your Postgres databas...

  • PostgreSQL
  • GitHub Actions
  • Neon

Latest Demo

Product demonstration project.

• NEW

  

  Monday, September 30, 2024 Move dev to Neon, keep prod on AWS RDS

  Project Overview The team at Neon approached me, initially to ghost-write some content but, after a couple of conversati...

  • PostgreSQL
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS
  • Neon

Latest Ghostwriting

Latest ghost-written article.

• NEW

  Neon

  • Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Neon's Instant Branches: Schema-Only or With Data, the Choice Is Yours

  If you've been keeping up with the Neon story, we introduced database branching in December 2022. Our instant branches—c...

  • PostgreSQL
  • Neon

Latest Post

Latest post published here on my site.

• NEW

  

  Thursday, July 4, 2024 How to Use PostgreSQL SSL certificates in GitHub Actions

  If you've ever connected to a PostgreSQL database that required an SSL certificate, you'll have probably downloaded the ...

  • PostgreSQL
  • GitHub Actions