devinus/poolboy
A hunky Erlang worker pool factory observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5783
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1233
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1599 stars · 350 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Poolboy is a lightweight, generic worker pool library for Erlang focused on simplicity, performance, and reliable disaster recovery. It manages checkout/checkin of supervised worker processes, commonly used for database connection pooling.
Use cases
- pool database connections in erlang
- manage a fixed pool of gen_server workers
- limit concurrent access to a resource in erlang
- checkout and checkin worker processes under a supervisor
- build a connection pool for postgres with epgsql
When to choose
- you need a small, battle-tested pooling library for Erlang/Elixir OTP applications
- you want supervisor-integrated worker pools with overflow support and crash recovery
When to avoid
- you need pooling outside the BEAM ecosystem
- you need actively developed features or modern pool implementations with advanced metrics
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
concurrency database-driver developer-tools microservices databases backend developer-tools elixir jvm cross-platform worker-pool erlang connection-pooling otp pooling-library
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/devinus/poolboy · fetched 2026-08-28 · fa5676f28b2b
- homepage: http://github.com/devinus/poolboy · fetched 2026-08-29 · 69936c86c9df
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| devinus/poolboy | main | 32 |
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