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 ecpool is different with worker-pool libraries in that it is designed to pool connection/clients to server or database.
 
-ecpool tries to avoid the erlang application crash when the server or dabased going down.
+ecpool tries to avoid the erlang application crash when the server or database going down.
 
 
 ## Overview