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Practical Concurrency in Go - GoRoutines, Mutexes, Channels and More
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- Author: eldr-io
- Full Title: Practical Concurrency in Go - GoRoutines, Mutexes, Channels and More
- Category: #articles
- Document Tags: dev dev/go
- URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X24qXb4uWms&si=rsxeM5e_FgY5RCIg
- Archive: https://web-archive.alecodes.page/bookmarks?bf=1&search=&title=Practical%20Concurrency%20in%20Go%20-%20GoRoutines%2C%20Mutexes%2C%20Channels%20and%20More
[!tldr] The video tutorial demonstrates how to create a concurrent currency exchange API using Go. It explains how to fetch currency rates simultaneously by utilizing goroutines and channels. The goal is to efficiently manage multiple API calls to retrieve currency data.
Highlights
We don't really want to spin up a thousand threads just to do API calls. What we want instead is we want a worker pool of threads that can basically, whenever they're available, pick up work, and then they can do the work and then return a result, and then they can pick up the next work until there's no more work to be done. And this is a great pattern called a worker pattern or worker pool pattern. View Highlight)