# workers-discussions
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sathoro
05/14/2023, 7:51 PMyeah it can be, is almost entirely open source - a
AA
05/14/2023, 7:52 PMi wish it'd been more mature when i started this project ;P - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 7:52 PMwe use it for auth and CRUD stuff - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 7:52 PMha yeah stuff is moving fast the last couple years - a
AA
05/14/2023, 7:52 PMthis projects from 2018.. still chugging. - a
AA
05/14/2023, 7:53 PMpredates workers i believe - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 7:56 PMit is a good time to start a project now - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 7:56 PMDOs and workers have been a literal game changer - a
AA
05/14/2023, 7:56 PM'soon' is always a good time to start a project 😛 - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:19 PMHow? Don't think you'd be able to run that on a worker - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:20 PMI imagine there will be some DO connection pool libraries that will be created - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:20 PM"just setup a connection pooler" is easier said than done with workers - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:20 PMAn unexplored frontier lol - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:22 PMI meant once the TCP comes out. In meantime use Supabase or PostgREST - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:22 PMTCP support alone doesn't solve it - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:22 PMBecause of the way workers scale - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:22 PMwhy - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:23 PMpgbouncer will queue the connections - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:23 PMthat is half the point of using it - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:23 PMHow/where are you deploying pgbouncer? I've never used it tbf so maybe I'm misinformed - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:23 PMBut don't think you'll be able to deploy it on a worker - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:23 PMalso workers stick around for a while you could cache the requests locally I think. but establishing a connection to pgbouncer doesn't take that long - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:24 PMI'm not saying you would run it in a worker - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:24 PMyou run it on a server close to the database - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:24 PMand connect to it from the worker - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:24 PMrunning it in a worker would make no sense lol - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:24 PMIt would make sense to run the pool on a durable object - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:24 PMnow we are just going in a circle lol - s
sathoro
05/14/2023, 8:25 PMalready have this exact convo above: https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/779390076219686943/1107391755231445052 - t
Tom Sherman
05/14/2023, 8:25 PMWhen people see "connect to pg from a worker" I don't think they automatically think "oh sure let me go and spin up a persistent server with a pool on"