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Go Design Patterns

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466204
Pages 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Mario Castro Contreras Mario Castro Contreras
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Go Design Patterns
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Preface
1. Ready... Steady... Go! 2. Creational Patterns - Singleton, Builder, Factory, Prototype, and Abstract Factory Design Patterns 3. Structural Patterns - Composite, Adapter, and Bridge Design Patterns 4. Structural Patterns - Proxy, Facade, Decorator, and Flyweight Design Patterns 5. Behavioral Patterns - Strategy, Chain of Responsibility, and Command Design Patterns 6. Behavioral Patterns - Template, Memento, and Interpreter Design Patterns 7. Behavioral Patterns - Visitor, State, Mediator, and Observer Design Patterns 8. Introduction to Gos Concurrency 9. Concurrency Patterns - Barrier, Future, and Pipeline Design Patterns 10. Concurrency Patterns - Workers Pool and Publish/Subscriber Design Patterns

Future design pattern


The Future design pattern (also called Promise) is a quick and easy way to achieve concurrent structures for asynchronous programming. We will take advantage of first class functions in Go to develop Futures.

Description

In short, we will define each possible behavior of an action before executing them in different Goroutines. Node.js uses this approach, providing event-driven programming by default. The idea here is to achieve a fire-and-forget that handles all possible results in an action.

To understand it better, we can talk about a type that has embedded the behavior in case an execution goes well or in case it fails.

In the preceding diagram, the main function launches a Future within a new Goroutine. It won't wait for anything, nor will it receive any progress of the Future. It really fires and forgets it.

The interesting thing here is that we can launch a new Future within a Future and embed as many Futures as we want in the same Goroutine (or new ones). The idea...

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