Go Pool makes it easy to set up and manage pools of background workers. Not only can they be started and stopped, but they can also be dynamically sized ensuring you have the optimal amount of workers running for your situation.
To start a pool of long running workers who's size will be managed by gopool, you should use the Pool.Start func.
A good use case for this is when you have a message queue that jobs get published to. Then lets assume you want to always have at least 1 worker consuming jobs from the queue, but you also want to scale the number of consumers according to the current lag.
To do this, just pass in a WorkerCountFunc that returns the number of workers you would want to run at any point in time, and pass in a SleepTimeFunc to customise how often gopool should modify the number of running workers.
E.g. Your WorkerCountFunc could return the {number of unread items in the queue} / 100, and the SleepTimeFunc could return time.Second * 120.
This would mean that every 2 minutes gopool would resize the pool and ensure that X / 100 workers are running, where X is the number of unread items in the queue.
To start a pool of temporary workers who will die when their work input channel is closed, you should use the Pool.StartOnce func.
To wait for the pool to finish it's work you can use the Pool.Done func, as the channel it returns is closed when the pool's work is done.
go get -u github.com/tomwright/gopool
Documentation can be found at https://godoc.org/github.com/tomwright/gopool.