The Timeouts and Cancellation pattern uses context.Context or channels to control the lifecycle of concurrent operations. This pattern is essential for preventing goroutines from running indefinitely, graceful shutdown of operations, resource cleanup and management, and building responsive applications.
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The Publish-Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern decouples message producers (publishers) from consumers (subscribers). Publishers send messages to a topic or channel, and all subscribers to that topic receive the messages. This pattern is essential for event-driven architectures, broadcasting messages to multiple consumers, and decoupling senders and receivers.
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The Supervisor/Restart pattern involves a supervisor goroutine that monitors one or more worker goroutines. If a worker fails (panics or exits unexpectedly), the supervisor restarts it. This pattern is essential for building resilient and fault-tolerant systems, automatically recovering from transient errors, and ensuring critical tasks are always running.
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The Producer-Consumer pattern decouples the production of data from its consumption using a shared buffer (channel). Multiple producers can generate data and send it to the buffer, while multiple consumers read from the buffer and process the data. This pattern is essential for buffering bursts of work, decoupling work rates between producers and consumers, and load leveling.
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The Worker Pools pattern maintains a fixed number of workers that process jobs from a shared queue. This pattern is essential for controlling resource usage, handling bursty workloads, and providing predictable performance in concurrent systems.
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