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What is Mutex and How to Use it in Golang?

  • During the development of LiveAPI, an Auto API documentation generation tool, I needed to implement a robust queue mechanism that scaled based on the number of server machine cores.
  • A Mutex (Mutual Exclusion) is a locking mechanism that prevents race conditions by ensuring only one goroutine can access a shared resource at a time.
  • To manage concurrent job execution in Golang, we can use a Mutex from the sync package.
  • There are two types of Mutexes in Golang: sync.Mutex and sync.RWMutex.

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