Mitigating PostgreSQL Connection Pool Exhaustion in Serverless via Prisma ORM
The shift toward serverless architectures (like AWS Lambda, Vercel, and Netlify) has drastically simplified deployment pipelines and autoscaling. However, pairing a stateless, highly ephemeral serverless function with a traditional stateful relational database like PostgreSQL introduces critical infrastructure challenges. The most common and devastating failure pattern full-stack engineers encounter is database connection pool exhaustion, frequently manifested…