The Go language has been gaining momentum due to its treatment of concurrency as a core language feature, making concurrent programming more accessible than ever. However, concurrency is still an inherently difficult skill to master, since it requires the development of the right mindset to decompose problems into concurrent components correctly. This book will guide you in deepening your understanding of concurrency and show you how to make the most of its advantages.
You’ll start by learning what guarantees are offered by the language when running concurrent programs. Through multiple examples, you will see how to use this information to develop concurrent algorithms that run without data races and complete successfully. You’ll also find out all you need to know about multiple common concurrency patterns, such as worker pools, asynchronous pipelines, fan-in/fan-out, scheduling periodic or future tasks, and error and panic handling in goroutines.
The central theme of this book is to give you, the developer, an understanding of why concurrent programs behave the way they do, and how they can be used to build correct programs that work the same way in all platforms.
By the time you finish the final chapter, you’ll be able to develop, analyze, and troubleshoot concurrent algorithms written in Go.
publication date
2023-04-21
what you will learn
Understand basic concurrency concepts and problems
Learn about Go concurrency primitives and how they work
Learn about the Go memory model and why it is important
Understand how to use common concurrency patterns
See how you can deal with errors in a concurrent program
Discover useful techniques for troubleshooting
key features
Learn about the Go concurrency primitives, Go memory model, and common concurrency patterns * Develop the insights on how to model solutions to real-life problems using concurrency * Explore practical techniques to analyze how concurrent programs behave
approach
This book is about the whys and hows of developing concurrent programs. It starts with some fundamental concurrency concepts, how they are built into the Go language, and how to use Go concurrency primitives. Then, it develops multiple implementations of concurrent algorithms with real-life applications, and demonstrates how to analyze them to build correct, efficient, and portable programs.
audience
If you are a developer with basic knowledge of Go and are looking to gain expertise in highly concurrent backend application development, then this book is for you. Intermediate Go developers who want to make their backend systems more robust and scalable will also find plenty of useful information. Prior exposure Go is a prerequisite.
short description
Developing concurrent programs is hard. To get ahead, you’ll need a comprehensive guide that will help you understand why concurrent programs act the way they do, how to analyze and understand them, and how to write scalable concurrent programs that work the way you want. This book will take you on a journey through relevant concepts and prepare you for a variety of challenges faced when implementing concurrency.
subtitle
Develop, analyze, and troubleshoot high performance concurrent applications with ease
keywords
Concurrency, Go, Golang, concurrent programming, concurrent algorithms
Product ISBN
9781804619070
