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| | Authentication and authorization are necessary for almost all systems. It's time to set it up.
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| | The Go context package was developed to make it easy to pass request-scoped values, deadlines, and cancellation signals across API boundaries and processes. Thinking about Context in non-technical terms(?the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood?) for a start could help us better understand Context as used technically. The context package comes in very handy when working with servers, making HTTP requests, and a host of othe...
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| Starting a goroutine is as easy as adding the go keyword in front of a method, but managing the lifecycle of a goroutine is not. If you only need to start a few goroutines and wait for their completion, you are off the hook thanks to sync.WaitGroup. However, what if a goroutine has to run for a specific duration or repeatatly in a loop until the initiating code terminates? Does it matter? After all, if the main goroutine terminates, any other goroutine will also stop. It does matter, because depending on what the goroutines are doing, it might leave your system in an inconsistent or invalid state. Channels are a commonly used to signal to a goroutine that it can shut down, but I often see the use of a signaling channel, for example chan bool or chan struct{}.