Stop using Prisma on Vercel. Seriously

I'm going to make some Prisma fans angry. That's fine. I shipped my last three SaaS projects on Next.js + Vercel + Postgres. The first two used Prisma because that's what every tutorial recommends. The third one I switched to Drizzle. Cold start on a fresh deploy: Prisma: 2.8 seconds Drizzle: 180 milliseconds That's not a typo. That's the difference between a user thinking your app is broken and your app feeling instant. And it's not a benchmark I cherry-picked from a blog post that's the p95 fr