Actually, instead of poolboy, this seems like something that the new GenStage module that is being added to Elixir (and currently available via the above link on hex.pm) is explicitly and specifically designed for. Hard to get more ‘standard built-in library’ than that (at least until it is added to, likely, the next Elixir version base).

EDIT: /me is really loving the GenStage module

Hi @marcuslankenau,

I would love to hear what the folks that have actually worked with pools would do in this case, but pool management is a (elegantly) solved problem in Elixir / Erlang. The most common package I’ve seen used for this is poolboy. It’s a dependency of Ecto, in case that increases your confidence in the library. I found a very quick tutorial / example on using poolboy - I don’t know how much the library has changed since that post was written, but it will certainly help you understand the intent of the library.

Does it seem to fit your need?

I’ll second @OvermindDL1’s request for a follow-up, if it’s not to much trouble. Also, @OvermindDL1 thanks for pointing out GenStage - I wasn’t aware of it.