This post is part of series on Java and Spring backend microservice development. Also I’d like to mention this post is not a cookbook and doesn’t provide a perfect solution for any business problem.

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.

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