High-performance worker pools with Bigopool
Building High-Performance Concurrent Applications with bigopool
Introduction
Concurrency is one of Go’s greatest strengths, but managing goroutines effectively at scale can be challenging. When you have millions of tasks to process, spawning a goroutine for each one can quickly overwhelm your system with excessive memory usage and context switching overhead. This is where worker pools come to the rescue.
A few years ago, I created bigopool, a lightweight Go library that implements high-performance worker pools with elegant error and result handling. Today, I have finally decided to write about it.
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