Connection Pooling
Maintaining a reusable pool of active database connections to eliminate the overhead of repeatedly opening and closing connections.
Definition
Maintaining a reusable pool of active database connections to eliminate the overhead of repeatedly opening and closing connections.
Use case
Using PgBouncer to allow thousands of incoming serverless requests to share 50 open PostgreSQL connections.
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Connection pool
Sharing a few database connections across thousands of requests.