Why should prisma’s 

dataProxy

 service be used over 

pg bouncer

Hello @Dan, pbBouncer is a great connection pooler for PostgreSQL. Still, there are some reasons for people to use our Data Proxy over pgBouncer today: 1. while some providers offer hosted pgBouncer, not all of them do. Some folks are not comfortable having to operate infrastructure, and pgBouncer would be one more thing to manage, potentially. 2. pgBouncer works only with PostgreSQL, while the Prisma Data Proxy works will all DBs that Prisma supports (MySQL, PG, SQLServer, MongoDB). So if you are using something other than Postgres, Data Proxy is an option, while pgBouncer is not. We also plan to add more runtime functionalities to the Data Platform down the line, beyond connection pooling: data caching, data projections and more. If you are curious to hear more about what kind of features to expect from the Data Platform, I’d recommend attending the keynote of our serverless event later today (free attendance): https://www.prisma.io/serverless