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Database Connection Pooling: Why Opening a New Database Connection Every Time Is a Bad Idea

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Imagine your application receives 1,000 requests in a few seconds. Each request needs to communicate with your database. Now imagine opening a brand-new database connection for every single request. That's a lot of unnecessary work. This is exactly the problem database connection pooling solves.

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