Enhancements for the ChannelPool

[0xCryotoZen]

Background:

ChannelPool is a struct for managing gRPC client connections, providing basic connection pooling functionality. While it already offers some useful features, there are potential improvements and extensions that could further enhance performance, stability, and maintainability.

Proposed Features:

• Maximum Connection Limit: To prevent creating too many simultaneous connections, consider adding a maximum connection limit to the ChannelPool struct. Concurrent connection creation can be controlled using a Semaphore or other concurrency control structures.

• Connection Expiration: Add an expiration time for each connection in the ChannelPool. Connections exceeding this duration would be automatically closed, ensuring connections don't remain open indefinitely.

I chose to implement these two features because they can significantly improve performance and reduce resource usage. Additionally, these features lay the groundwork for future improvements.
There are also any other features about ChannelPool, for example :

• Smarter Connection Recycling Strategy: The current implementation simply discards connections when they encounter errors. Implement a smarter recycling strategy, such as deciding when to close connections based on their usage frequency or idle time.

• Connection Health Checks: Perform periodic health checks on connections to ensure that the connections in the pool are still functional. If unhealthy connections are discovered, remove them from the pool and create new connections as needed.

• Connection Load Balancing: If connecting to a service with multiple backend instances, consider implementing connection load balancing. Choose between round-robin, least connections, or other load balancing strategies based on connection usage.

• Detailed Error Handling and Logging: For easier debugging and troubleshooting, consider adding more detailed error handling and logging within the code.

• Generics: The current implementation of the with_channel method requires a function returning a Result<T, Status>. Consider using a generic error type to make it more adaptable to different error handling requirements.

[willianfonseca]

Hey, @ccbond can I take this one?

[0xCryotoZen]

Hey, @ccbond can I take this one?

yes!

[Doordashcon]

Hello @willianfonseca are you still working on this?

[Doordashcon]

Hello @ccbond would like to pick this up?

[Doordashcon]

@ccbond after going through src/channel.rs

I fail to see the scenario where multiple channels can be created. The public methods available are with_channel(), drop_channel() and the associative function new(...) or am I missing something here?