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High-traffic applications face PostgreSQL connection bottlenecks. PgBouncer solves this by pooling connections, yielding a 4x throughput increase.

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High-traffic applications face PostgreSQL connection bottlenecks. PgBouncer solves this by pooling connections, yielding a 4x throughput increase.

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