Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases and why we’re making it free

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This post announces that Hyperdrive is now available on the free plan of Cloudflare Workers. It details how Hyperdrive improves performance by reducing latency through connection pooling and caching, and provides a benchmark demonstrating a significant reduction in query times. The post also explains the transaction-mode pooling approach used by Hyperdrive and outlines the multi-round trip process of establishing a new connection to a PostgreSQL database, highlighting the problem Hyperdrive solves.