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Distributed Computing with Go

You're reading from   Distributed Computing with Go Practical concurrency and parallelism for Go applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125384
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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V.N. Nikhil Anurag V.N. Nikhil Anurag
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Preface 1. Developer Environment for Go 2. Understanding Goroutines FREE CHAPTER 3. Channels and Messages 4. The RESTful Web 5. Introducing Goophr 6. Goophr Concierge 7. Goophr Librarian 8. Deploying Goophr 9. Foundations of Web Scale Architecture 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Gotchas when using goroutines

By this point, we should have developed a good understanding of how goroutines and the scheduler works. Let's now look at a few things that may catch us by surprise while working with goroutines.

Single goroutine halting the complete program

We know that goroutines run across multiple threads and multiple cores. So what happens when we have a panic in one of the threads? Here is an example that would let us simulate such a situation. We will create a lot of similar goroutines, whose sole purpose is to take a number and divide it by itself after subtracting 10 from the denominator. This will work fine for the majority of cases, except when the number is 10. The following code implements the...

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Distributed Computing with Go
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