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PgBeam

A globally distributed PostgreSQL proxy that reduces latency by routing connections to the nearest edge location, mainta

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PgBeam

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PgBeam is essentially Cloudflare for your database, except it's just PostgreSQL and it's solving a real problem that most people don't even realize they have until their queries start timing out in production. The edge-pooling mechanism means you're not constantly opening new connections to your primary database, which is the kind of invisible optimization that separates servers that can handle traffic from ones that crumble. The SELECT caching is smart too—it's basically read-through caching at the protocol level, so hot queries stay hot without touching your actual database. If you're running a distributed app and your users aren't co-located with your single PostgreSQL instance, this is the move.

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