@andrewicarlson https://prisma.slack.com/archives/C0MQBSAJY/p1662900428793269?thread_ts=1662898930.641479&cid=C0MQBSAJY I was reading this, so the Data Proxy is for Prisma opening connections. So would I require this when working with Cockroach DB serverless? I'm fairly new to Serverless so these may be basic questions.

Hi Yudhvir 👋 The Data Proxy provides database connection management and pooling for Prisma applications. By using the Data Proxy, your application can seamlessly scale up while maintaining predictable database performance, by limiting the number of total connections used. Data proxy will be most useful for you if you are deploying your apps to Serverless environments Like AWS Lambda functions, Cloudflare workers or Vercel Edge functions.

That makes sense. So essentially if I understand correctly it manages the client connections for us & keeps them open. This is useful for servers apps so we don’t have timeouts & have lots of cold starts. CockroachDB has this: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/announcing-cockroachdb-serverless/ Prisma supports CockroachDB & so I was wondering if it is already serverless & does connection pooling should I use it?

I haven’t tried out CockroachDB Serverless, it seems this was announced recently, but I assume that there shouldn’t be an issue using CockroachDB Serverless with Data Proxy. Regarding connection pooling,

the proxy keeps the connection open client side

the proxy helps avoid serverless cold starts by reusing existing database connections, so it keeps a few connections open and can help in reducing the delay faced due to cold starts.

Thanks! I think I’ll start without the proxy but I’ll add it in if there are a lot of cold starts.