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Case Study: Mindvalley spins up preview environments in under a minute with Neon branching

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Mindvalley
Industry
E-learning
Challenge
CloudSQL backup-and-import for preview environments took hours.
Headline result
Mindvalley's 100-developer team spins up preview environments in under a minute with Neon branches, down from the hours its CloudSQL process required.

Key results

<1 min
To spin up a preview
Down from hours on CloudSQL
100
Developers enabled
Hundreds of ephemeral environments
11M
Lives reached by platform

The challenge

Mindvalley, whose platform reaches 11 million lives with a 100-developer team, faced long delays creating preview environments: the traditional CloudSQL backup-and-import process took hours.

The solution

Mindvalley adopted Neon branching with the Neon Twin GitHub Action workflow, letting developers spin up isolated preview environments from the main branch on demand.

Time to launch is crucial for us: when we tried Neon and saw that spinning up a new branch takes seconds, we were blown away

AC
Alex Co
Head of Platform Engineering, Mindvalley

The results, in context

Mindvalley reported spinning up new preview environments in less than a minute using Neon branches, compared with the hours its previous CloudSQL backup-and-import process required, enabling hundreds of ephemeral environments for its 100 developers.

Products used

Neon Neon PostgresNeon Neon Branching