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Go Cookbook

You're reading from   Go Cookbook Build modular, readable, and testable applications in Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286836
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. I/O and File Systems FREE CHAPTER 2. Command-Line Tools 3. Data Conversion and Composition 4. Error Handling in Go 5. All about Databases and Storage 6. Web Clients and APIs 7. Microservices for Applications in Go 8. Testing 9. Parallelism and Concurrency 10. Distributed Systems 11. Reactive Programming and Data Streams 12. Serverless Programming 13. Performance Improvements, Tips, and Tricks

Using the worker pool design pattern

The worker pool design pattern is one where you dispatch long-running goroutines as workers. These workers can process a variety of work either using multiple channels or by using a stateful request struct that specifies the type as described in the preceding recipe.
This recipe will create stateful workers and demonstrate how to coordinate and spin up multiple workers all handling requests concurrently on the same channel. These workers will be crypto workers like in a web authentication app. Their purpose will be to hash plain text strings using bcrypt package and compare a text password against a hash.

Getting ready

Refer to the Getting ready section of the Using channels and the select...

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