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This page linkes to a selection of technical content about the open source code in this repository.

Please visit https://neon.tech/docs for documentation about using the Neon service, which is based on the code in this repository.

Architecture

Introduction

• Separation of Compute and Storage

• Compute

  • Postgres changes

• Pageserver

  • Services
  • Thread management
  • WAL Redo
  • Page cache
  • Storage
  • Compaction
  • Processing a GetPage request
  • Processing WAL

• WAL Service

  • Consensus protocol

• Source view

  • docker.md — Docker images and building pipeline.
  • Error handling and logging

• Glossary

Uncategorized

• authentication.md
• multitenancy.md — how multitenancy is organized in the pageserver and Zenith CLI.
• settings.md #FIXME: move these under sourcetree.md #- postgres_ffi/README.md #- test_runner/README.md

RFCs

Major changes are documented in RFCS:

• See RFCs for more information
• view the RFCs at https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/docs/rfcs