# Egress problems and where to find them

DevFeed: [Egress problems and where to find them](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/egress-problems-and-where-to-find-them-2322.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://planetscale.com/blog/database-egress>)

Author: Simeon Griggs

Published: 2026-05-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- PlanetScale](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-planetscale.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [reduce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reduce.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how reducing database egress by fetching less data and making requests less frequently can improve application performance while lowering costs. It focuses on Postgres examples, including query limits, selecting specific columns, and extracting needed values from JSONB data.

## Source excerpt

Reducing the size and frequency of requests to your database has the double benefit of making your applications faster and cheaper.