Go Concurrency (Google IO 2012)

Go

Concurrency is the key to designing high performance network services. Go’s concurrency primitives (goroutines and channels) provide a simple and efficient means of expressing concurrent execution. In this talk we see how tricky concurrency problems can be solved gracefully with simple Go code.

Some Notes

  • Concurrency is not parallelism
    • Go support concurrency across multiple cpu cores, which is called parallelism
  • Example of running the search function to search web,image and video concurrently
    • with no lock, no condition variable and no callbacks
    • with ability to limite maximum wait time, and return the searched result among web, image and video.
  • The video used Go’s concurrency primitives to convert
    • from slow, sequential and failure sensitive program
    • to fast, concurrent, replicated and robust program
Written on September 26, 2015