How I Debugged 3 AM Postgres Pool Outages With Hindsight
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At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, our payment processing service dropped connections, throwing cascading HTTP 500 errors across our edge API gateway. The worst part of the page was not the downtime itself; it was the realization that our team had spent four hours fixing this exact connection pool starvation…
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- 2026-09-29 16:45 · DEV Community — AI
How I Debugged 3 AM Postgres Pool Outages With Hindsight