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April 8, 2025
Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases and why were making it free
Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. Let's dive deeper, in celebration of its availability for Free Plan customers.
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