Mastering Go Concurrency: Running Background Tasks with Goroutines (Part 5)

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 Goroutines can be used to start independent long running task. These tasks can be entire microservices, which is very useful for creating a single application with multiple system responsibilities. The select statement will block and wait for a channel to be ready for reading, then after reading from the channel the code will be executed. Playground: https://go....

Mastering Concurrency in Go: Decoupling Data Transfer With Buffered Channels (Part 4)

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 Buffered Channels in Go are similar to unbuffered channels, but they allow a writer to write without blocking if the channel is not full, which can be useful for concurrent data processing where the reader needs to be decoupled. However, using buffered channels can consume memory even when the buffer is empty, so they should be used with care....

Concurrency Limiting in Go Maximizing Application Efficiency and Resource Utilization

Playground , Repo Why do you need concurrency limiting? Concurrency limiting in your go application might be necessary to limit overuse of a specific resource. This could be an API rate limit, slow network connection, slow disk I/O operation or limited CPU/RAM. Starting a huge number of go routines that use a limited resource could cause your application to crash. If you are experiencing crashes or errors on a resource intensive task then I would recommend implementing a concurrency limiter....

Mastering Concurrency in Go Synchronizing Critical Sections With Mutex (Part 3)

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 In Go, critical sections refer to parts of your code that manipulate a resource which must be accessed by only one goroutine at a time. By using a mutex, you can temporarily lock a critical section, perform the operation, and then unlock it, allowing other goroutines to access the resource. Attempting to lock a critical section in a goroutine will block execution until the lock can be acquired....

Mastering Concurrency in Go: Fan in With Channels (Part 2)

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 Return values from go routines cannot be captured in the usual way with the = operator because starting a go routine is non blocking. A channel can be used to collect the results from many concurrent go routines. Write a value to a channel inside the go routine that is doing the work, then in main() read from the channel until it is closed to collect all the results from the go routines....