Just built a SQL connection pool in Go from scratch ⚡

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Oct 04, 2023 • 1 min read


Just built a SQL connection pool in Go from scratch ⚡

The connection pool seems overwhelming at first, but when you start implementing you realize it is just a thread-safe blocking queue, and you can write a performant pool in less than 70 lines of code.

Attached is the snippet of the put function; and you can see how self-explanatory is code is.

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Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses