Drizzle ORM & Connection Pooling at Scale
Heavy ORMs like Prisma introduce substantial cold-start latency on serverless edge functions. Lightweight, SQL-like ORMs provide zero-overhead type safety.
<5ms
Database query execution overhead
- Direct SQL compilation without heavy runtime engines
- Proper connection pooling to prevent connection exhaustion
- Automated schema migrations with zero database locks
VETERAN ARCHITECT TIP
Always run database migrations in transactional batches and keep connection pools sized to CPU core count.