Gain insights into Go's concurrency, delve into efficient programming techniques, learn advanced concepts, and discover how to enhance performance and robustness in your applications.

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Go (also known as Golang) is one of the most popular languages today and is a key part of many enterprise tech stacks. Because Go's memory management architecture makes concurrency easier, many developers prefer it over traditional languages.

In this course, you will learn the core constructs and techniques of Go as well as advanced concepts of the language. In particular, you’ll learn how to program efficiently by becoming aware of the pitfalls and patterns that are commonly encountered in Go and by building your own applications.

Once you’ve completed this course, you will be able to write concurrent programs and improve the performance of existing ones, thus creating a more robust experience for everyone. Concurrency is in high demand today since it enables developers to reduce execution time of applications significantly, and Golang provides a very rich support for achieving this.

Concurrency in Go

# Overview of the buffer channel

In Golang, to get around the blocking nature of the channel, we can use a buffer channel. Keep in mind that the blocking nature occurs in the buffer channel when the buffer `capacity` is full.

A channel without any `capacity` is also called an **unbuffered channel**. In other words, it indicates that sends are only accepted if the corresponding receive is ready to receive the value of the sending goroutine. On the other hand, buffered channels accept a limited number of values without a corresponding receiver for those values. Simply put, a buffered channel is like a queue, and it will hold the number of values mentioned while declaring the channel without creating any blockages.

The buffered channels in Golang work in FIFO (first-in-first-out) order.


# Usage of a buffered channel

There are numerous cases where we can use a buffered channel, but some of the general uses are as follows:

- We can use buffered channels when we want to aggregate data from several goroutines and process the returned result.
- We can use the buffered channels when we want to limit the number of processes or open only a specific number of concurrent processes simultaneously.
- If we don’t need synchronization immediately but will need it later, we can let the sender fill up the buffer first instead of blocking the send. Then the receiver can empty it and process it.


# Declare a buffered channel

The syntax used to declare the buffered channel is similar to the syntax used to declare an ordinary channel. The only difference is that it requires another parameter, `capacity`. We add the `capacity` as a second parameter in the `make` function. The final declaration syntax will be in the syntax `make(chan int, capacity)`, as exemplified below:

```go
goChannel := make(chan int, 2)
```

Let’s look at the working code to understand it in more depth.


Learn about the buffer channel in Golang.


Buffer Channel

Learn about the buffer channel in Golang.

Introduction to Concurrency

General Concepts

Sync

Goroutines

Channels

Implementing Concurrency Patterns

Conclusion

Buffer Channel

Overview of the buffer channel