Mastering Concurrency in Go

Gain insights into implementing concurrency in Go, explore common patterns, and learn to write efficient, practical applications leveraging Go's outstanding support for concurrency.

Intermediate

35 Lessons

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Gain insights into implementing concurrency in Go, explore common patterns, and learn to write efficient, practical applications leveraging Go's outstanding support for concurrency.

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2 Assessments

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Course Overview

Mastering concurrency can make you a much more in-demand developer on the job market. It's becoming an increasingly important concept in modern programming as multi-core devices become more and more prevalent. The good news is that Go has some outstanding support for concurrency out of the box that makes implementation a breeze. In fact, concurrency in Go is easier to implement and faster than in any other major language. In this course, you'll start off with a general introduction to concurrency and buil...Show More

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Concurrency Patterns In Go

Concurrency In Go

Concurrency

Course Content

Introduction to Concurrency

Get familiar with concurrency concepts, including data races, deadlocks, CSP, and resource management.

An Introduction to Concurrency Concurrency vs. Parallelism Communicating Sequential Processes Data Races and Race Conditions Deadlocks Starvation Quiz on Basic Concurrency Concepts

Building Blocks of Concurrency in Go

Grasp the fundamentals of concurrency in Go with goroutines, channels, sync methods, and practical exercises.

Introduction to Goroutines Goroutines: Explained Further

Channels Buffered Channels Exercise: Merge Sort Solution Review: Merge Sort Select Statement Exercise: Buzz Game Solution Review: Buzz Game WaitGroups Exercise: Multiplication Table Solution Review: Multiplication Table Mutex The 'sync' Package The 'runtime' Package Prefix Sum Problem : A Concurrent Approach Quiz on Building Blocks of Concurrency

Exam I on Mastering Concurrency in Go

Assessment

Basic Concurrency Patterns in Go

Master the steps to implement efficient concurrency patterns in Go using channels and goroutines.

Generator Pattern Fan-In, Fan-Out Sequencing Range and Close The For-Select Loop Quit Channel Timeout using Select Statement Exercise: Sum of Squares Solution Review: Sum of Squares Advanced Concurrency Patterns in Go Quiz on Concurrency Patterns

Exam II on Mastering Concurrency in Go

Assessment

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