Go concurrency the right way (e.g. my way)

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:01:41 +0000

My take on go concurrency is that there are 3 things that matter, and we can create a robust pattern using … 3 technologies to help us out. None of this is really new, but I haven’t seen the material presented from this particular viewpoint. With that, and the additional caveat that this isn’t a beginner’s guide, let’s jump straight in

What matters

Startup
Shutdown
Throughput

Once everything is _working_ it’s not all that complicated (*) to do concurrency in golang (or any other programming language. Data comes in, it gets farmed out to wherever it needs to go, and you have some synchronization method to prevent corruption.

Concurrency on sugar, spice, &terminal? nice

Go concurrency the right way (e.g. my way)

What matters