This chapter covers worker pools, wait groups for async operations, and the use of the context package. Parallelism and concurrency are some of the most advertised and promoted features of the Go language. This chapter will offer a number of useful patterns to get you started and help you understand these features.
Go provides primitives that make parallel applications possible. Goroutines allow any function to become asynchronous and concurrent. Channels allow an application to set up communication with goroutines. One of the famous sayings in Go is Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating from https://blog.golang.org/share-memory-by-communicating.
