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  • Why Prisma’s Default Connection Pool Will Silently Kill Your App Under Load

    Why Prisma’s Default Connection Pool Will Silently Kill Your App Under Load

    We had a real-time game backend with 2 auth services and 15 game services, all connected to a shared hosted PostgreSQL instance, with all database queries handled through Prisma. On a routine load test simulating 10,000 concurrent users, we noticed that over 25% of requests were timing out—not failing, not throwing errors, just silently dying…

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