Michael Aboagye

Michael is a back-end data engineer and technical writer based in Accra, Ghana. His tech stack includes but not limited to Kafka, Hadoop, Storm, Python, Cassandra, Postgres, Elastic Search, Redis and Zookeeper.
code-for-a-living October 14, 2020

Improve database performance with connection pooling

We tend to rely on caching solutions to improve database performance. Caching frequently-accessed queries in memory or via a database can optimize write/read performance and reduce network latency, especially for heavy-workload applications, such as gaming services and Q&A portals. But you can further improve performance by pooling users’ connections to a database. Client users need…