Migrating from Monoliths to PostgreSQL Serverless

Migrating the production database of a legacy monolith to a Serverless architecture is one of the most critical tasks in systems evolution. PostgreSQL offers advanced tools to solve this challenge.

### 1. Active Connection Poolers In Serverless environments (like AWS Lambda or Vercel Functions), each query can open and close a database socket. Using tools like pgBouncer or Supabase Connection Pooler is critical to avoid connection exhaustion during traffic spikes.

### 2. Table Partitioning For tables exceeding millions of records, native partitioning by date or ID drastically speeds up search indexes, allowing the SQL engine to skip full disk reads.

### 3. Read Replicas Balancing heavy read and reporting queries to dedicated replicas ensures that critical user writes and transactions remain free from lockups and row locks.