CGI/PHP treated database connections as something that's always available. That pushes a lot of hidden complexity onto the database platform: it has to be reachable from anywhere, handle massive fan-out, survive bursty short-lived clients, and remain correct under constant connect/disconnect.

That model worked when you had a small number of stable app servers. It becomes much harder when compute fans out into thousands or millions of short-lived sandboxes.

We're already seeing parts of the data ecosystem move away from this assumption. Projects like Iceberg and DuckDB decouple storage from long-running database services, treating data as durable formats that many ephemeral compute instances can operate on. That's the direction we're exploring as well.

Yes it's Apache 2, thanks for pointing this out, I'll be fixing this.