fanout

README

fanout

A demo showing how to process incoming requests in parallel.

Useful to learn about:

• Concurrent execution (goroutines)
• Synchronization and messaging (channels)
• Multi-way concurrent control (select)
• Completing or canceling gracefully (context.Context)

Build and Run

$ go get github.com/ancientlore/fanout
$ fanout

Presentation

To run the presentation, use the present tool.

Install present:

$ go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present

Run the presentation:

$ present -notes -play

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3999/fanout.slide to see the presentation. Use the notes view by pressing N to see presenter notes.

Good reading

• https://blog.golang.org/pipelines
• https://blog.golang.org/context
• https://golang.org/pkg/context/
• https://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism
• https://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide
• https://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/