Every database query cost us four round-trips for six months: Prisma, Supavisor transaction mode, and a 47 ms ping
- September 15, 2026 On the evening of 14 September a guest tried to book Mara Hilltop, the lodge I started and run in the Maasai Mara, and every time he chose dates and pressed Continue the page died.
- That night we fixed the crash and found a separate database configuration mistake we had been living with since March in KaribuKit, the hotel software we build and run the lodge on.
- Correcting one setting cut the availability check behind the booking page from 8.06 seconds to 1.88.
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- September 15, 2026 On the evening of 14 September a guest tried to book Mara Hilltop, the lodge I started and run in the Maasai Mara, and every time he chose dates and pressed Continue the page died.
- That night we fixed the crash and found a separate database configuration mistake we had been living with since March in KaribuKit, the hotel software we build and run the lodge on.
- Correcting one setting cut the availability check behind the booking page from 8.06 seconds to 1.88.
Sources: Simbastack