Do You Concur?

This is the final post in my “Do You Concur?” series. If you’ve not checked the other two out it is highly recommended you do that before reading this one. With that out of the way let’s get started! What Are Channels? A channel in Go can be best understood by comparing it with a box. It is a box where goroutines can put and take out the data. So essentially channels help your goroutines to share data. One goroutine can send a value into the channel and another goroutine can receive those values. A very simple code snippet demonstrating this is: ...

This post is the second in my series of articles on Concurrency in Go. In this post, we’ll understand what a race condition is, the why and how of it, and finally, we see some code that creates a race condition, and then we will learn to fix that race condition with the help of Mutexes. So let’s get started! The What, Why And How Of A Race Condition A race condition in Go occurs when two or more goroutines have shared data and interact with it at the same time. This is best explained with the help of an example. ...

I recently started learning more about concurrency in golang and so as with other things I learn, I decided to write about it. This article will be a part of a short series I plan to write about concurrency in Go. So let’s get started! Concurrency Vs Parallelism Before we start looking at some code, I think it would be better to know what concurrency actually is. But even before we do that let us first talk about parallelism because it is a word that often comes up when talking about concurrency. ...