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Effective Concurrency in Go
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Effective Concurrency in Go

by Burak Serdar
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
212 pages
4h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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5

Worker Pools and Pipelines

This chapter is about two interrelated concurrency constructs: worker pools and pipelines. While a worker pool deals with splitting work among multiple instances of the same computation, a data pipeline deals with splitting work into a sequence of different computations, one after the other.

In this chapter, you will see several working examples of worker pools and data pipelines. These patterns naturally come up as solutions to many problems, and there is no single best solution. I try to separate the concurrency concerns from the computation logic. If you can do the same for your problems, you can iteratively find the best solution for your use case.

The topics that this chapter will cover are as follows:

  • Worker ...
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