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Throttling Goroutines

Control concurrency.

Throttling Concurrency

Sometimes you do not limit per second, you limit how many goroutines run at once. This caps simultaneous load on a resource regardless of timing.

  • Bounds parallelism
  • Protects connection pools
  • Prevents memory spikes

The Semaphore Channel

A buffered channel works as a counting semaphore. Its capacity equals the maximum concurrency. Acquiring sends a token; releasing receives one.

sem := make(chan struct{}, 3)

All lessons in this course

  1. Token Bucket Concept
  2. golang.org/x/time/rate
  3. Throttling Goroutines
  4. Backoff and Retry
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