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The Go Workshop

You're reading from   The Go Workshop Learn to write clean, efficient code and build high-performance applications with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647940
Length 824 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sam Hennessy Sam Hennessy
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Andrew Hayes Andrew Hayes
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Gobin Sougrakpam Gobin Sougrakpam
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Jeremy Leasor Jeremy Leasor
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Delio D'Anna Delio D'Anna
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Dániel Szabó Dániel Szabó
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Variables and Operators FREE CHAPTER 2. Logic and Loops 3. Core Types 4. Complex Types 5. Functions 6. Errors 7. Interfaces 8. Packages 9. Basic Debugging 10. About Time 11. Encoding and Decoding (JSON) 12. Files and Systems 13. SQL and Databases 14. Using the Go HTTP Client 15. HTTP Servers 16. Concurrent Work 17. Using Go Tools 18. Security 19. Special Features Appendix

Summary

In this chapter, you've learned how to create production-ready concurrent code, how to handle race conditions, and how to make sure that your code is concurrent-safe. You've learned how to use channels to make your goroutines communicate with each other and how to stop their executions using the context.

You've worked on several techniques to handle concurrent computation. In many real-life scenarios, you might just use functions and methods that handle concurrency for you, especially if you're doing web programming, but there are cases where you have to handle the work coming from some different sources by yourself. You need to match requests with your response through different channels. You might need to gather different data into one single routine from different ones. With what you've learned here, you'll be able to do all that. You'll be able to ensure you do not lose data by waiting for all the Goroutines to finish. You'll be...

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