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Vincent Smith
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Vincent Smith has been a software engineer for 10 years, having worked in various fields from health and IT to machine learning, and large-scale web scrapers. He has worked for both large-scale Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike and has sharpened his skills from the best of both worlds. While obtaining a degree in electrical engineering, he learned the foundations of writing good code through his Java courses. These basics helped spur his career in software development early in his professional career in order to provide support for his team. He fell in love with the process of teaching computers how to behave and set him on the path he still walks today.
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sync package helpers

Goroutines and channels, being the core constructs of concurrent programming in Go, will provide most of the utility that you will need. However, there are many helpful objects that the Go standard library provides that are also useful to know. We have already seen how sync.Mutex and sync.RWMutex work, but let's take a look at some of the other objects offered.

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Now that you are able to launch scraper tasks into multiple threads, some controls will need to be put into place so things don't get too out of hand. It is very simple in Go to launch 1,000 goroutines to scrape 1,000 pages simultaneously from a single program. However, your machine most likely cannot handle the same load. The...

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Vincent Smith

Vincent Smith has been a software engineer for 10 years, having worked in various fields from health and IT to machine learning, and large-scale web scrapers. He has worked for both large-scale Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike and has sharpened his skills from the best of both worlds. While obtaining a degree in electrical engineering, he learned the foundations of writing good code through his Java courses. These basics helped spur his career in software development early in his professional career in order to provide support for his team. He fell in love with the process of teaching computers how to behave and set him on the path he still walks today.
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