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Introducing Database Traffic Control

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Introducing Database Traffic Control By Sam Lambert | Postgres has a fundamental gap when it comes to managing query traffic. When an unexpected spike of bad queries, or runaway workload hits your database, Postgres has no good way to fight back. It accepts every query thrown at it until performance degrades or, in the worst case, the server goes down. Today we're introducing Database Traffic Cont...
Analyzing this article from the Purple team perspective, we find it presents an innovative solution to a common issue in Postgres databases—uncontrolled query traffic leading to performance degradation or server crashes. The new Database Traffic Control feature by PlanetScale aims to address this problem by allowing users to create budgets for specific subsets of queries based on various dimensions. This feature can help prevent incidents, reduce their impact, prioritize traffic shaping, isolate...