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Alright, so you built a Next.js app with MongoDB. It works on your laptop. You deploy it. Feels great, right? Then a week later... BOOM. App's down. Users can't log in. You're panicking. You check MongoDB and see: "Too many connections" What the hell...

Your FastAPI app is humming in dev. Endpoints respond in under 50ms, tests pass, the team is happy. You ship to prod. Traffic climbs past 80 concurrent users and suddenly... your database pool is exhausted, requests are hanging, and your monitoring s...
