The Developer's Guide to Database Proxies: When to Use Them and How to Create One

Database Proxies can enhance performance and security in complex, high-traffic distributed systems built with Microservices.

Database Proxy is a layer of abstraction between your applications and the underlying database(s).

Imagine a complex distributed system that relies heavily on data, where each microservice or a team connects to a database individually (it can be a shared database or specific/isolated ones). Such a complex platform requires things like centralized monitor…