# Understanding the request reference \`request\_ref\` in Mint

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**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/understanding-the-request-reference-request-ref-in-mint/29313 "2020-02-21T19:52:01Z")\
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> [@entone](#):
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> we start one process per REST resource, and that process manages concurrent requests for that endpoint.

Sorry for the - probably very trivial - question, but what is the purpose of the process? I thought it was to re-use a connection (stored in a process as state) but I see that for every single request, you create a new connection.

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