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System Programming Essentials with Go

You're reading from   System Programming Essentials with Go System calls, networking, efficiency, and security practices with practical projects in Golang

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634132
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Why Go? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Refreshing Concurrency and Parallelism 4. Part 2: Interaction with the OS
5. Chapter 3: Understanding System Calls 6. Chapter 4: File and Directory Operations 7. Chapter 5: Working with System Events 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Pipes in Inter-Process Communication 9. Chapter 7: Unix Sockets 10. Part 3: Performance
11. Chapter 8: Memory Management 12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Performance 13. Part 4: Connected Apps
14. Chapter 10: Networking 15. Chapter 11: Telemetry 16. Chapter 12: Distributing Your Apps 17. Part 5: Going Beyond
18. Chapter 13: Capstone Project – Distributed Cache 19. Chapter 14: Effective Coding Practices 20. Chapter 15: Stay Sharp with System Programming 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix : Hardware Automation

Task scheduling in Go

Task scheduling is the act of planning tasks to be executed by a system at certain times or under certain conditions. It’s a fundamental concept in computer science, used in operating systems, databases, networks, and application development.

Why schedule?

There are several reasons to schedule a task, such as the following:

  • Efficiency: It allows for the optimal use of resources by running tasks during off-peak hours or when certain conditions are met.
  • Reliability: Scheduled tasks can be used for routine backups, updates, and maintenance, ensuring these critical operations are not overlooked.
  • Concurrency: In multi-threaded and distributed systems, scheduling is essential for managing when and how tasks are executed in parallel.
  • Predictability: It provides a way to ensure that tasks are performed at regular intervals, which is important for tasks such as polling, monitoring, and reporting.

Basic scheduling

Go’s standard...

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