# fatih/pool

Connection pool for Go's net.Conn interface

Repository: https://github.com/fatih/pool
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pool
Homepage: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/fatih/pool.v2
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pool, go, golang
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-07-22T10:02:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4661, "days_push": 2964, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1368, forks 288 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:31.670710+00:00)

## What it is
A thread-safe connection pool for Go's net.Conn interface that manages and reuses network connections via a channel-based pool. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- pool and reuse TCP connections in Go
- manage a fixed set of net.Conn connections
- limit concurrent connections to a backend service
- reuse socket connections to reduce dial overhead

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained dependency
- you need pooling for HTTP or database connections (use standard library or driver pools instead)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: networking, concurrency
- domain: networking, developer-tools
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: connection-pool, net-conn, tcp, archived

## Member repositories
- fatih/pool (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.670710+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:03.452236+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fatih/pool (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.670710+00:00, sha 0ddfaef05e49)
  - homepage: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/fatih/pool.v2 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:58:01.682152+00:00, sha db20d3dafd29)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:58:01.693534+00:00, sha 757852027879)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/gopkg.in/fatih/pool.v2 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:58:01.691530+00:00, sha f8fe56efa4d1)
  - site_page: https://go.dev/project (fetched 2026-08-29T11:58:01.695536+00:00, sha d5ca00bb378b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.