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by lizztheblizz 1328 days ago
Lambda was a means to an end for us here, and we're not specifically endorsing its use in _this_ way. Our goal was explicitly to test our ability to handle many parallel connections, and to observe what that looked like from different angles.

We're a DBaaS company, and we do need to be prepared for anything users may throw at us. Our Global Routing infrastructure has seen some major upgrades/changes recently to help support new features like PlanetScale Connect and our serverless drivers.

From our point of view, this was a sizing exercise with the interesting side benefit that many people do happen to use Serverless Functions similarly.