Go Go Go - A quick intro to concurrency in Go

Go intro talk presented at Haifa:Dev meet up.

Requirements

• Install Go

Structure

main.go

Main Func

A small Go http server running on port :8090.

APIs for getting car insurance qoutes

• GET /quote - , handles flow synchronosly
• GET /quote/v2 - handles flow asynchronosly, using gorountines
• GET /quote/v3 - handles flow asynchronosly, using gorountines + wait groups

Functions for mocking db/api calls

Each function has a synthetic sleep time of 300ms.

• getUser(“uid”) - fetch user by id
• getUserSub(“uid”) - fetch user subscription
• generateQuote(“uid”) - generate car insurance quoute

main_test.go

• Compare goroutine strategies
• Load test