You’ve got goroutines and channels. Today we combine them into the three Go concurrency patterns that solve 90% of real concurrent problems. These are the same blueprints industry uses, documented on the official Go blog and in Rob Pike’s classic talk Go Concurrency Patterns. Pipeline: the assembly line A pipeline is a series of stages […]
READ MOREChannels are the preferred road, not the only one. Today we complete the toolbox with the sync package for classic synchronization and context, the standard mechanism for telling an army of goroutines the show is over. Getting Go context right is half of production readiness. sync.WaitGroup: waiting without sleeping The official replacement for those time.Sleep […]
READ MOREFourteen articles typing go mod init like a ritual without explaining the spell. Today’s the day: what a module is, what go.mod and go.sum hold, and why Go modules are one of the few things in this world that just work. What a module is A module is a collection of packages versioned as a […]
READ MOREIn the previous article we installed Go and compiled our first binary. Today we cover the raw material everything else is made of: Go data types, variables and constants. And at the end, iota, that word that shows up in every Go codebase and nobody explains right the first time. Static typing, minimal ceremony Go […]
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