By now, you should be comfortable with the models and tools provided in Go's core to provide mostly race-free concurrency.
We can now create goroutines and channels with ease, manage basic communication across channels, coordinate data without race conditions, and detect such conditions as they arise.
However, we can neither manage larger distributed systems nor deal with potentially lower-level consistency problems. We've utilized a basic and simplistic mutex, but we are about to look at a more complicated and expressive way of handling mutual exclusions.
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to expand your concurrency patterns from the previous chapter into distributed systems using a myriad of concurrency models and systems from other languages. We'll also look—at a high level—at some consistency models that you can utilize to further express your precoding strategies for single-source and distributed...