I recently ran into a connection exhaustion issue in our application. Multiple workflows were competing for DB resources, and connections were getting maxed out. To solve it, I had to dig deeper. What ...

Connection leakage is a critical issue in applications that use JDBC for database interactions. If database connections are not properly closed, they can accumulate over time, leading to performance ...

Configuring a connection pool is something that developers often get wrong. There are several, possibly counter-intuitive for some, principles that need to be understood when configuring the pool.

Lets say there are 8 connections in the pool and all are idle. The database at the back end crashes and it takes about 30 seconds for the VIP (through which the connections are obtained) to point to ...