Go: Building Web Applications

Managing threads

So far, you've probably noticed that thread management is not a matter that requires the programmer's utmost concern in Go. This is by design. Goroutines aren't tied to a specific thread or threads that are handled by Go's internal scheduler. However, this doesn't mean that you neither have access to the threads nor the ability to control what individual threads do. As you know, you can already tell Go how many threads you have (or wish to use) by using GOMAXPROCS. We also know that using this can introduce asynchronous issues as it pertains to data consistency and execution order.

At this point, the main issue with threads is not how they're accessed or utilized, but how to properly control execution flow to guarantee that your ...