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