DevPlanetScaleover 3 years ago
One million connections
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MySQL's max_connections variable limits database connections to prevent memory crashes. Serverless functions often hit this limit during traffic surges, forcing developers to use proxies like pgbouncer. Raising the limit risks overcommitting memory, causing dangerous database crashes and downtime. Application-side connection pools help but don't solve the serverless scaling problem.
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