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		grosskur on Aug 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Inner Guts of Bitbucket [video] Anyone know why they use two layers of pgbouncer? The speaker mentions this briefly in the Q&A but doesn't go into detail.

ddbennett on Aug 12, 2014 [–]

Layer one is for connection pooling on the application servers, layer two (on the database server) is mostly for control purposes.

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