Every page spins forever
Your post goes viral. Within minutes every page spins, then fails. Your database dashboard says CPU is nearly idle.
This answers: Why does my app hang with too many connections? No coding needed. 2 quick decisions.
- Where your data lives
- How a request travels
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Why does my app hang with too many connections?
Each copy of a function opens its own database connections, and a traffic spike runs many copies at once, so the database hits its connection limit and refuses new ones. Connect through your database's , which shares a few connections across many requests.
Breaks at Database: Out of database connections
How it works
Why AI tools write this bug
Generated code often uses the direct database connection string, which works with one developer and fails with a hundred simultaneous visitors.
How to fix it
- Look for 'too many clients' or 'connection slots' errors.
3 more steps, and a prompt that checks your own app for this bug. Part of Pro.
UnlockCommon questions
- Will a bigger database plan fix it?
- It raises the limit a little. A pooler fixes the pattern.