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Feb 2021
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Which DBMS will Implement QUIC First? Ca...

Hussein Nasser
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In this video, I discuss why QUIC will make a great communication protocol for databases and how it solves a critical problem with stateless web applications. Web applications use database connection pooling to establish database connections on the backend. But that creates other sorts of problems.

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