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.
NOTE: For other posts on concurrency patterns, check out the index post to this series of concurrency patterns.
The Fan-out/Fan-in pattern is a concurrency pattern that distributes work across multiple workers (fan-out) and then collects results from all workers (fan-in). This pattern is essential for parallel processing of independent tasks, load balancing, and improving throughput for CPU-intensive operations.
NOTE: For other posts on concurrency patterns, check out the index post to this series of concurrency patterns.
The Pipeline pattern is a fundamental concurrency pattern that connects multiple stages of processing where each stage processes data and passes it to the next stage. This pattern is particularly useful for data transformation workflows, stream processing, and multi-step computations.
NOTE: For other posts on concurrency patterns, check out the index post to this series of concurrency patterns.
Concurrency is one of those topics that can make even experienced developers break out in a cold sweat. It’s like trying to juggle flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle on a tightrope. But here’s the thing – in today’s world of multi-core processors, distributed systems, and high-performance applications, understanding concurrency isn’t just a nice-to-have skill; it’s absolutely essential.
Go, with its goroutines and channels, makes concurrency more approachable than most languages. But just because it’s easier doesn’t mean it’s easy. You still need to understand the patterns, the pitfalls, and the best practices to build robust, scalable systems.
That’s what this series is about. We’re going to dive deep into the concurrency patterns that every Go developer should know. Not just the theory – we’ll look at real, working code examples that you can run, modify, and learn from. This blog post is going to also act as the index to the posts, with today starting with the Pipeline Pattern.
This series covers 12 essential concurrency patterns, each with practical examples and detailed explanations. Here’s what’s coming:
Continue reading “Concurrency Patterns in Go: A *Short* Deep Dive Series”I’ve been diving deep into implementing Datadog in iOS applications and wanted to share my experience with both SwiftUI and UIKit approaches and the related elements of the work. Let’s break this down into what works, what doesn’t, and why you might choose various options when using Datadog (or deciding not to use Datadog).
First things first, you’ll need these Datadog SDK packages:
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/DataDog/dd-sdk-ios", from: "2.27.0")
]
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