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Srinu Madhav Vysyaraju

Senior Software Engineer @ sls.guru

December 29, 2025

The Hidden Bottleneck in High-Throughput Serverless Systems: Why Faster Lambdas Mean Fewer Connections

When your serverless system runs out of database connections, the fix isn't always adding more connections. Sometimes the fix is making each function finish faster, so you need fewer concurrent functions in the first place.

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Srinu Madhav Vysyaraju

Senior Software Engineer @ sls.guru

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