diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b0f23878..f1157295 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,4 +30,5 @@ replaced with `parseBody`, `parseUploadedFiles`, and `parseRawRequestBuffer`, re
 * Removed the synchronous equivalents of the above methods (`body`, `files`, and `originalBuffer`),
 as well as `query`.
 * Removed `Angel.injections` and `RequestContext.injections`.
-* Removed `Angel.inject`.
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+* Removed `Angel.inject`.
+* Removed a dependency on `package:pool`, which also meant removing `AngelHttp.throttle`.
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diff --git a/lib/src/http/angel_http.dart b/lib/src/http/angel_http.dart
index dda37b8f..c4a750fc 100644
--- a/lib/src/http/angel_http.dart
+++ b/lib/src/http/angel_http.dart
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import 'dart:io'
 import 'package:angel_http_exception/angel_http_exception.dart';
 import 'package:angel_route/angel_route.dart';
 import 'package:combinator/combinator.dart';
-import 'package:pool/pool.dart';
 import 'package:stack_trace/stack_trace.dart';
 import 'package:tuple/tuple.dart';
 import 'http_request_context.dart';
@@ -29,8 +28,6 @@ class AngelHttp {
   Future<HttpServer> Function(dynamic, int) _serverGenerator = HttpServer.bind;
   StreamSubscription<HttpRequest> _sub;
 
-  Pool _pool;
-
   AngelHttp(this.app, {this.useZone: true});
 
   /// The function used to bind this instance to an HTTP server.
@@ -323,10 +320,6 @@ class AngelHttp {
         ..add(outputBuffer);
 
       return request.response.close().then((_) {
-        if (req.injections.containsKey(PoolResource)) {
-          req.injections[PoolResource].release();
-        }
-
         if (!app.isProduction && app.logger != null) {
           var sw = req.grab<Stopwatch>(Stopwatch);
 
@@ -343,11 +336,7 @@ class AngelHttp {
   Future<HttpRequestContext> createRequestContext(HttpRequest request) {
     var path = request.uri.path.replaceAll(_straySlashes, '');
     if (path.length == 0) path = '/';
-    return HttpRequestContext.from(request, app, path).then((req) {
-      if (_pool != null) req.inject(PoolResource, _pool.request());
-      if (app.injections.isNotEmpty) app.injections.forEach(req.inject);
-      return req;
-    });
+    return HttpRequestContext.from(request, app, path);
   }
 
   Future<ResponseContext> createResponseContext(HttpResponse response,
@@ -356,12 +345,4 @@ class AngelHttp {
           response, app, correspondingRequest as HttpRequestContext)
         ..serializer = (app.serializer ?? json.encode)
         ..encoders.addAll(app.encoders ?? {}));
-
-  /// Limits the maximum number of requests to be handled concurrently by this instance.
-  ///
-  /// You can optionally provide a [timeout] to limit the amount of time a request can be
-  /// handled before.
-  void throttle(int maxConcurrentRequests, {Duration timeout}) {
-    _pool = new Pool(maxConcurrentRequests, timeout: timeout);
-  }
 }
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 9a7b05b4..d0446987 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ dependencies:
   meta: ^1.0.0
   mime: ^0.9.3
   path: ^1.0.0
-  pool: ^1.0.0
   stack_trace: ^1.0.0
   tuple: ^1.0.0
 dev_dependencies: