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Go: Building Web Applications

By : Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer
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Go: Building Web Applications

By: Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding garbage collection, type safety, some dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types such as variable-length arrays and key-value maps, and a large standard library. This course starts with a walkthrough of the topics most critical to anyone building a new web application. Whether it’s keeping your application secure, connecting to your database, enabling token-based authentication, or utilizing logic-less templates, this course has you covered. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this course will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. It will also take you through the history of concurrency, how Go utilizes it, how Go differs from other languages, and the features and structures of Go's concurrency core. It will make you feel comfortable designing a safe, data-consistent, and high-performance concurrent application in Go. This course is an invaluable resource to help you understand Go's powerful features to build simple, reliable, secure, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 2. Understanding the Concurrency Model

Now that we have a sense of what Go is capable of and how to test drive some concurrency models, we need to look deeper into Go's most powerful features to understand how to best utilize various concurrent tools and models.

We played with some general and basic goroutines to see how we can run concurrent processes, but we need to see how Go manages scheduling in concurrency before we get to communication between channels.

Understanding the working of goroutines

By this point, you should be well-versed in what goroutines do, but it's worth understanding how they work internally in Go. Go handles concurrency with cooperative scheduling, which, as we mentioned in the previous chapter, is heavily dependent on some form of blocking code.

The most common alternative to cooperative scheduling is preemptive scheduling, wherein each subprocess is granted a space of time to complete and then its execution is paused for the next.

Without...