Another +1 from me. I've been using it to do 1000s of requests/second in a project for over a year now. It's a little bit of work in that you have to explicitly

Another +1 from me. I've been using it to do 1000s of requests/second in a project for over a year now. It's a little bit of work in that you have to explicitly get then return a connection to the pool, but the "defer" syntax makes that as painless as possible.