cloud sql proxy makes connecting to cloud managed postgres instances pretty simple/easy. honestly, we dont have a "great" reason other than, we set it up a long

cloud sql proxy makes connecting to cloud managed postgres instances pretty simple/easy. honestly, we dont have a "great" reason other than, we set it up a long time ago, and it's continued to work haha. so pgbouncer connects to cloud sql proxy, which does the connection pooling concern.