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A slow query arrives. Someone runs EXPLAIN ANALYZE, pastes the output into a search engine, and a verdict comes back:
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Every Go service that talks to PostgreSQL ends up managing a pool of database connections, and almost every team gets
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Every Go program you have ever shipped is a swarm of goroutines multiplexed onto a handful of operating system threads.
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Every team seems to arrive at the same configuration at some point: the database feels slow, someone searches for a
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