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Programming 2085 words 10 min

TDD Isn't Just for Catching Bugs — It's Your Permission Slip

Three years ago, I had a crisis of confidence with testing.
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Programming 562 words 3 min

Flexible Approaches to Worker Pools in Go

Explore flexible approaches to the Worker Pool pattern in Go, including the Shared Semaphore method and third-party libraries. Learn when to use each approach for optimal concurrency management in your Go projects.
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Programming 762 words 4 min

Mastering the Worker Pool Pattern in Go

The Worker Pool pattern is a fundamental concurrency design in Go that efficiently manages a pool of worker goroutines to process tasks from a shared queue. This pattern excels at handling a large number of independent tasks concurrently while maintaining precise control over system resources and performance.
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Programming 562 words 3 min

Advanced Generator Pattern in Go: Test Data Generation

Building upon our previous exploration of the Generator pattern, let’s dive into a more advanced real-world application: generating test data for a web service. This pattern is particularly useful for creating large datasets to stress test APIs or simulate high-load scenarios.
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Programming 569 words 3 min

Mastering the Generator Pattern in Go

The Generator pattern in Go is a powerful concurrency pattern used to create functions that produce a sequence of values. It leverages Go’s goroutines and channels to generate data asynchronously, providing an elegant way to work with streams of data or implement iterators.
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Programming 717 words 4 min

Producer-Consumer in Go: Beyond the Basics

Explore advanced aspects of Go's Producer-Consumer pattern with buffered channels and real-world examples. A beginner-friendly deep dive into practical applications.
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Programming 476 words 2 min

Understanding the Producer-Consumer Pattern in Go

The Producer-Consumer pattern is a fundamental concurrency pattern in Go that elegantly separates the production of data from its consumption. By using channels as intermediaries, this pattern creates a robust foundation for concurrent data processing.
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Programming 1361 words 7 min

Solving the Sum of Squares Problem: Optimizing Performance

Before delving into the main topic, I want to express my respect for the original post’s intent. My response aims to provide slight corrections that can benefit readers seeking accurate information. In the spirit of shared learning, I intend to contribute constructively rather than criticize. <br />Clarifications and alternative viewpoints can foster a deeper understanding of complex concepts. Let’s continue engaging in open discussions, embracing diverse insights as we collectively refine our knowledge.
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Programming 702 words 4 min

Merge Sort using Goroutines

This is a simple example of how to use goroutines to parallelize a merge sort algorithm. We compare the performance of a simple merge sort algorithm with a parallel merge sort algorithm that uses goroutines.
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Programming 1257 words 6 min

Goroutine vs Simple function

This is a simple example of why goroutines might be overkill for some tasks and less efficient than a simple function.
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Programming 617 words 3 min

How to optimize a Go deployment with Docker

In this article, I will present the different steps that led me to optimize the deployment of services in golang using docker.