Introduction to Concurrency in Go

Table of ContentsIntroductionGo's Concurrency ModelGoroutinesChannelsCommunication TypesBuffered vs. Unbuffered ChannelsA Nice Concurrency ProblemIntroduction

Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go programming language, is often attributed with the following quote:

Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once.

Simplest real life example to this could arguably be multi-tasking. When we multi-task, we are basically s...