How to use pools with HTTPotion?

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Solution

You can’t. HTTPotion doesn’t support pools, so if you want to use pools you would have to use something like poolboy and join them together.

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I believe Tesla is overkill. All I want to do are simple HTTP GET requests. Millions of them. Hackney can’t handle it so I can’t use anything that uses Hackney. But thanks for the link, it sure looks interesting.

Off-topic

This question was started because I was considering using pools with HTTPotion. The reason for this is that I usually default to using pools in every component I make without thinking, but Elixir is different in that processes are so cheap it is game changing.

Thus, I created another topic to reflect this:

When to use pools VS tasks?

Background I have been reading Elixir in Action and I have noticed that in an example, the author decides to forgo Tasks and use pools. The reasoning The reasoning behind this is that since we were dealing with a Database, and since the DB may be overrun by multiple simultaneous queries, we need to limit its access somehow via a pool. Thus, the idea I get from the book is that if we have a resource we want to keep from overusing, we should use a pool, otherwise, if our resource is practically …

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