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Concurrency in Go

Gain insights into Go's concurrency, delve into efficient programming techniques, learn advanced concepts, and discover how to enhance performance and robustness in your applications.

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56 Lessons

15h

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Gain insights into Go's concurrency, delve into efficient programming techniques, learn advanced concepts, and discover how to enhance performance and robustness in your applications.

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Course Overview

Go (also known as Golang) is one of the most popular languages today and is a key part of many enterprise tech stacks. Because Go's memory management architecture makes concurrency easier, many developers prefer it over traditional languages. In this course, you will learn the core constructs and techniques of Go as well as advanced concepts of the language. In particular, you’ll learn how to program efficiently by becoming aware of the pitfalls and patterns that are commonly encountered in Go and by build...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of concurrency and its application

Familiarity with core components of Golang and concurrency

Hands-on experience using Golang on concurrency

A working knowledge of concurrency and design patterns in Golang

An understanding of concurrency and its application

Course Content

Introduction to Concurrency

5 Lessons

Get familiar with Golang's concurrency, goroutines, channels, and parallelism.

Introduction to Concurrency in Golang

What is Concurrency?

What is Parallelism?

Print an Alphabet Using Parallelism

Quiz

General Concepts

10 Lessons

Solve challenges with deadlock, race conditions, livelock, and starvation in Go concurrency.

Deadlock

Practical Implementation for Deadlock

Race Condition

Challenge: Write Code with a Race Condition

Solution: Write Code with a Race Condition

Livelock

Challenge: Write Code with Livelock

Solution: Write Code with Livelock

Starvation

Quiz

Sync

8 Lessons

Examine Go's synchronization primitives like mutexes, atomic operations, and the WaitGroup for concurrency.

Mutex

Challenge: Perform a Concurrent Read-Write Operation on a Map

Solution: Perform a Concurrent Read-Write Operation on a Map

Atomic

WaitGroup

Challenge: Write Code with WaitGroup

Solution: Write Code with WaitGroup

Quiz

Goroutines

3 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of goroutines and anonymous goroutines for efficient concurrent programming.

All about Goroutines

Anonymous Goroutine

Quiz

Channels

7 Lessons

Take a closer look at channels for communication, directional usage, buffering, and internal management.

What is a Channel?

Directional Nature of the Channel

Challenge: Write Code with a Unidirectional Channel

Solution: Write Code with a Unidirectional Channel

Buffer Channel

Channels Internals

Quiz

Implementing Concurrency Patterns

22 Lessons

Investigate concurrency patterns in Go, exploring design, generator, pipeline, worker pool, and timeout patterns.

What is a Design Pattern?

Generator Pattern

Challenge: Write Code with a Generator Pattern

Solution: Write Code with a Generator Pattern

Pipeline Pattern

Challenge: Write Code with a Pipeline Pattern

Solution: Write Code with a Pipeline Pattern

Worker Pool Pattern

Challenge: Write Code with Worker Pool Pattern

Solution: Write Code with Worker Pool Pattern

Solution: Write Code with Worker Pool and Generator Patterns

Single Producer and Consumer

Multiple Producers and Consumers

Fan-In

Multiple Producers and a Single Consumer

Fan-Out

Single Producer and Multiple Consumers

Timeout Using Select

Challenge: Write Code Using Select that Times Out

Solution: Write Code Using Select that Times Out

Quit Channel

Quiz

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Master the steps to choose efficient solutions in Go, focusing on concurrency and effective design.

Conclusion

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