Goroutine Leaks are a common cause of memory leaks in Go programs. In my previous post, I presented an introduction to Goroutine leaks and provided one example of a common mistake that many Go developers make. Continuing that work, this post presents another scenario on how Goroutines could be leaked.

Goroutine leaks are a common source of memory leaks in concurrent programs. This post defines Goroutine leaks and provides one example of a leak that is easy to miss in production code.

In the months leading up to GopherCon, my wife Jamilet and I had come up with the idea of creating a “small” browser-based game for the convention using the racing …

Introduction I teach a class called Ultimate Go. The class is three days long and teaches you the history, mechanics and semantics of the Go programming language. The …

Introduction One day I was talking to Damian Gryski in Slack about some performance improvements he made to his go-metro package. When I first looked at the changes I was …

Introduction I’ve been seeing a lot of question about interfaces lately on Slack. Most of the time the answers are technical and focus on implementation details. …

Introduction I was guided for many years to write functions that are generalized and to create layers upon layers of abstraction so things don’t break as business …

Prelude It will be helpful to read this four-part series first on escape analysis and data semantics. Details on how to read an escape analysis report and pprof output …

Introduction When I started to work with Go’s channels for the first time, I made the mistake of thinking about channels as a data structure. I saw channels as a queue …