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Postgres connection pooling at scale

PgBouncer vs Odyssey vs application-level pooling — what we learned managing a hundred-thousand connections.

Priya Nair · 1 min read
Postgres connection pooling at scale

PgBouncer vs Odyssey vs application-level pooling — what we learned managing a hundred-thousand connections.

Priya Nair
WRITTEN BY Priya Nair Co-founder & CTO · Networking

Priya leads infrastructure at Stratum, where she's spent the last six years building anycast networks and edge routing systems that move trillions of requests a month. Previously a network engineer at a hyperscaler.

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