diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c64f4bc68..e24392941 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ actix-codec = "0.1.0"
 actix-service = "0.3.3"
 actix-utils = "0.3.3"
 actix-router = "0.1.0"
-actix-rt = "0.2.0"
+actix-rt = "0.2.1"
 actix-web-codegen = { path="actix-web-codegen" }
 
 actix-http = { git = "https://github.com/actix/actix-http.git" }
@@ -78,16 +78,13 @@ encoding = "0.2"
 futures = "0.1"
 hashbrown = "0.1.8"
 log = "0.4"
-lazy_static = "1.2"
 mime = "0.3"
 net2 = "0.2.33"
-num_cpus = "1.10"
 parking_lot = "0.7"
 regex = "1.0"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 serde_urlencoded = "^0.5.3"
-threadpool = "1.7"
 time = "0.1"
 url = { version="1.7", features=["query_encoding"] }
 
diff --git a/src/blocking.rs b/src/blocking.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index fc9cec299..000000000
--- a/src/blocking.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-//! Thread pool for blocking operations
-
-use std::fmt;
-
-use derive_more::Display;
-use futures::sync::oneshot;
-use futures::{Async, Future, Poll};
-use parking_lot::Mutex;
-use threadpool::ThreadPool;
-
-use crate::ResponseError;
-
-/// Env variable for default cpu pool size
-const ENV_CPU_POOL_VAR: &str = "ACTIX_CPU_POOL";
-
-lazy_static::lazy_static! {
-    pub(crate) static ref DEFAULT_POOL: Mutex<ThreadPool> = {
-        let default = match std::env::var(ENV_CPU_POOL_VAR) {
-            Ok(val) => {
-                if let Ok(val) = val.parse() {
-                    val
-                } else {
-                    log::error!("Can not parse ACTIX_CPU_POOL value");
-                    num_cpus::get() * 5
-                }
-            }
-            Err(_) => num_cpus::get() * 5,
-        };
-        Mutex::new(
-            threadpool::Builder::new()
-                .thread_name("actix-web".to_owned())
-                .num_threads(default)
-                .build(),
-        )
-    };
-}
-
-thread_local! {
-    static POOL: ThreadPool = {
-        DEFAULT_POOL.lock().clone()
-    };
-}
-
-/// Blocking operation execution error
-#[derive(Debug, Display)]
-pub enum BlockingError<E: fmt::Debug> {
-    #[display(fmt = "{:?}", _0)]
-    Error(E),
-    #[display(fmt = "Thread pool is gone")]
-    Canceled,
-}
-
-impl<E: fmt::Debug> ResponseError for BlockingError<E> {}
-
-/// Execute blocking function on a thread pool, returns future that resolves
-/// to result of the function execution.
-pub fn run<F, I, E>(f: F) -> CpuFuture<I, E>
-where
-    F: FnOnce() -> Result<I, E> + Send + 'static,
-    I: Send + 'static,
-    E: Send + fmt::Debug + 'static,
-{
-    let (tx, rx) = oneshot::channel();
-    POOL.with(|pool| {
-        pool.execute(move || {
-            if !tx.is_canceled() {
-                let _ = tx.send(f());
-            }
-        })
-    });
-
-    CpuFuture { rx }
-}
-
-/// Blocking operation completion future. It resolves with results
-/// of blocking function execution.
-pub struct CpuFuture<I, E> {
-    rx: oneshot::Receiver<Result<I, E>>,
-}
-
-impl<I, E: fmt::Debug> Future for CpuFuture<I, E> {
-    type Item = I;
-    type Error = BlockingError<E>;
-
-    fn poll(&mut self) -> Poll<Self::Item, Self::Error> {
-        let res =
-            futures::try_ready!(self.rx.poll().map_err(|_| BlockingError::Canceled));
-        match res {
-            Ok(val) => Ok(Async::Ready(val)),
-            Err(err) => Err(BlockingError::Error(err)),
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index fd0ee998f..54ca74dc2 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ pub use actix_http::error::*;
 use derive_more::{Display, From};
 use url::ParseError as UrlParseError;
 
-pub use crate::blocking::BlockingError;
-
 /// Errors which can occur when attempting to generate resource uri.
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Display, From)]
 pub enum UrlGenerationError {
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 62f6399d6..0094818d3 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 mod app;
 mod app_service;
-mod blocking;
 mod config;
 pub mod error;
 mod extract;
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ pub mod dev {
     //! ```
 
     pub use crate::app::AppRouter;
-    pub use crate::blocking::CpuFuture;
     pub use crate::config::{AppConfig, ServiceConfig};
     pub use crate::info::ConnectionInfo;
     pub use crate::rmap::ResourceMap;
@@ -67,6 +65,7 @@ pub mod dev {
         Extensions, Payload, PayloadStream, RequestHead, ResponseHead,
     };
     pub use actix_router::{Path, ResourceDef, ResourcePath, Url};
+    pub use actix_rt::blocking::CpuFuture;
     pub use actix_server::Server;
 
     pub(crate) fn insert_slash(path: &str) -> String {
@@ -80,12 +79,12 @@ pub mod dev {
 
 pub mod web {
     use actix_http::{http::Method, Response};
+    use actix_rt::blocking::{self, CpuFuture};
     use futures::IntoFuture;
 
     pub use actix_http::Response as HttpResponse;
     pub use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
 
-    use crate::blocking::CpuFuture;
     use crate::extract::FromRequest;
     use crate::handler::{AsyncFactory, Factory};
     use crate::resource::Resource;
@@ -258,6 +257,6 @@ pub mod web {
         I: Send + 'static,
         E: Send + std::fmt::Debug + 'static,
     {
-        crate::blocking::run(f)
+        blocking::run(f)
     }
 }