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HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?

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Faster is always better, especially when executing SQL queries. We recently introduced SQL-over-HTTP to our driver, which previously only supported WebSockets. Why did we do that? And which approach is faster? Our journey developing the WebSockets serverless driver We first developed the Neon driver to help developers…