Async/Await vs Goroutines: A Mindset Shift
Here’s the thing about Go’s concurrency model: it’s going to feel backwards. You’ve spent years learning that async operations need …
Concurrency
Channels: The sync You Didn't Know You Wanted
If goroutines are Go’s lightweight threads, channels are how they talk to each other. Think BlockingCollection<T> meets message passing, with …
Context Is King
Every Go function that does I/O, might take a while, or should be cancellable will take a context.Context as its first parameter. It’s Go’s answer …
Mutexes and WaitGroups: When Channels Aren't the Answer
Go’s mantra is “share memory by communicating,” but sometimes you just need a bloody mutex. The sync package has all the primitives you know …
select: Multiplexing Like a Pro
The select statement is where Go’s channel system goes from “neat” to “powerful.” It lets you wait on multiple channel operations …