Learn how concurrency works in Go

Beginner

Developer

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Azure

Understand more about concurrency, one of the most unique features in Go.

Learning objectives

In this module, you'll learn about:

How concurrency works in Go.
The difference between concurrency and parallelism.
How communication works in a concurrent program by using channels.
How to write a program that runs faster by implementing concurrency.
How to write dynamic programs that can use buffers to take advantage of concurrency when you want to launch a limited number of concurrent calls.

A Go environment that's ready to create applications. Ideally, you should have installed and configured Go locally and installed Visual Studio Code with the Go extension.
The ability to create and modify .go files.
The ability to run Go applications by using the terminal prompt.
Knowledge of basic data types like string, int, and boolean.
Knowledge of how to write basic data control flows like if and for statements.
Knowledge of how to write functions.
Knowledge of how to use libraries like net/http.