Run something like PgBouncer in front of your postgres instance. https://www.pgbouncer.org/ https://www.pgbouncer.org/ For what it is worth, the popular postg

Run something like PgBouncer in front of your postgres instance. https://www.pgbouncer.org/ https://www.pgbouncer.org/ For what it is worth, the popular postgres and mysql libraries for nodejs support connection pooling out of the box. Cloud functions break this functionality because you are spinning up an instance per connection rather than handling multiple connections with a single instance of nodejs. In this case I think that longer lived containers or vms that can autoscale my be a better solution. That is not to say you should not use cloud functions. I understand they offer many benefits. Managing a fleet of vms or containers introduces its own challenges. In general I think this is a good example of how simplifying one thing can complicate other things. There are no silver bullets. It's all about determining the compromises you can and cannot accept.