When building community directories and markdown archives, setting up managed PostgreSQL clusters with complex connection pooling often creates more maintenance burden than business value. Here is how git-backed flat files simplified our deployment pipeline.
1. The Static Compilation Speedup
By keeping data local in the repository as structured JSON, Next.js static page generation happens entirely in-memory with zero round-trip network hops, dropping build times from 45 seconds down to 2.4 seconds.
KEY TAKEAWAY:Avoid remote database lookups during SSG builds when content updates via git commits.
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