Applied Concurrency in Go

1h 28mIntermediate2022-01-26

Authors

Adelina Simion

Software Engineer and Technology Evangelist

Course details

Concurrency can be a confusing and intimidating topic to engineers, but it is an essential tool when writing production code as it allows you to write faster and more efficient solutions. In this course, Adelina Simion demystifies the intimidating topic of concurrency and showcases how to use the powerful tools of goroutines and channels. Go is designed with concurrency in mind so every developer should feel confident to use these powerful tools in their daily work. Join Adelina in this course to gain a thorough understanding of Go concurrency and learn how to apply it to solve some common engineering problems.

Skills covered

GoProgramming FoundationsGoogleProgramming LanguagesSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Concurrency in daily life
02 - General prerequisites
03 - Prerequisite - The net http package

1. Goroutines and the Sync Package

04 - Concurrency vs. parallelism
05 - Goroutines basics
06 - The sync.WaitGroup
07 - Introducing the Orders app
08 - Race conditions
09 - The sync.Map
10 - The sync.Mutex

2. Channels

11 - Channel basics
12 - Channels in action
13 - Closing channels
14 - Ranging over channels
15 - The select statement
16 - Using channels in the Orders app

3. Concurrency Patterns

17 - Signaling work has finished
18 - Worker pools
19 - Contexts and cancellation
20 - Challenge - Extending the Orders app
21 - Solution - Extending the Orders app

Conclusion

22 - Continuing on with concurrency in Go