Cutting P99 Latency by 78% and Reducing DB Costs by $11.5k/Month: Adaptive Connection Pooling with Backpressure in Node.js 22 & PostgreSQL 16
Current Situation Analysis Most teams treat database connection pooling as a configuration exercise. You set min: 5, max: 20, and hope for the best. This approach is legacy thinking that fails under modern, bursty traffic patterns.
