Optimizing requests with a queue

With our background jobs interface in place, we can create an API that will queue our incoming data and flush it to the database at a defined frequency. Flushing our data in bulk will give us performance advantages.

The Queue

A basic Queue in Go is a slice. To extend the queue, you can call append, which allocates a larger slice if required. Since this is not thread safe, we need to use locking to ensure that the queue is modified safely.

// Queue provides a queuing structure for Incoming{}...