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Document best practices or provide a way to do TCP connection pooling

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#25,038 opened on May 2, 2018

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Description

When building a TCP client using Akka Streams outgoingConnection it is common to want to reuse connections. Most of the time a higher level protocol should be used but there are cases e.g. when developing a client for an existing TCP protocol such as a database driver / SMTP client when connection pooling would be useful. Might not be possible to make this generic enough but adding something to the cookbook would be useful.

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Research direction
Investigate the Akka Streams documentation to add a cookbook entry for TCP connection pooling. Focus on common patterns for reusing connections for protocols like database drivers or SMTP clients. Consider if a generic solution is feasible or if only best practices should be documented.
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backend
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Documentation
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2
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Half day
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Fresh
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Mostly clear
Prerequisites
ScalaAkka Streams
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
70