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Graceful degradation in Postgres

Not all traffic is created equal.When a database is overwhelmed, you want the important queries to keep executing, even if that means shedding lower-priority work.This is a much better outcome than the alternative: a total database outage. PlanetScale's Traffic Control makes this feasible at the dat...

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