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#Go Channel Compendium Interesting ways of using Go channels by John Graham-Cumming

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Overview

This is a code archive taken from the slides of John Graham-Cumming's presentation of 'A Channel Compendium' given at GopherCon 2014.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmoM1InWXr0

Contents

• Signalling
  • Wait for an event
  • Coordinate multiple goroutines
  • Coordinated termination of workers
  • Verify termination of workers
• Hide state
  • Unique ID service
  • Memory recycler
  • Capped memory recycler
• Nil channels
  • Disable receiving case statements
  • Disable sending case statements
• Timers
  • Timeout
  • Heartbeat
• Examples
  • Network multiplexer
  • First response
  • Passing a channel
  • HTTP load balancer