zlacker

Why do you need a connection to a database during the meeting? Doesn't it make more sense to record the meeting data to some local state first, and then serialize it to database at the end of the meeting or when a database connection is available? Or better yet, have a lightweight API service that can be scaled horizontally that is responsible for talking to the database and maintains its own pool of connections.

They probably don't even need a database anyway for data that is likely write once, read many. You could store the JSON of the meeting in S3. It's not like people are going back in time and updating meeting records. It's more like a log file and logging systems and data structures should be enough here. You can then take that data and ingest it into a database later, or some kind of search system, vector database etc.

Database connections are designed this way on purpose, it's why connection pools exist. This design is suboptimal.

>>iamlep+(OP)
It took me a long time to realize this but yes asking people to just open and write to files (or S3) is in fact asking a lot.

What you describe makes sense, of course, but few can build it without it being drastically worse than abusing a database like postgres. It's a sad state of affairs.