Ever had the "Error Establishing a Database Connection: Too Many Connections" message when your site is under heavy load or played whack-a-m

Your content is now Live by default

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2024-10-31 19:30:05

Ever had the "Error Establishing a Database Connection: Too Many Connections" message when your site is under heavy load or played whack-a-mole with cache invalidation?

You deploy a critical content update, but you're never quite sure when it will actually hit the site. Maybe you've have an mystical web of timeouts, webhooks, and revalidation tags; only to still be refreshing the page multiple times for your changes to be live.

This is why we've developed the Live Content API to make it easy to build live-by-default applications that scale to millions of visitors with just a few lines of code. Like three-ish.

The Live Content API is available in beta, and you can try it now in our Next.js starter, explore the documentation, or watch our recent Next.js Conf talk.

Imagine this scenario: You're running an e-commerce site, and a high-profile entrepreneur called Kim just dropped a instagram post about your latest product. Suddenly, thousands of eager customers flood your site. This is your moment to shine – but it's also when traditional caching solutions start to crumble.