October tech picks

Hey everyone! My name is Anton. I’ve been collecting various articles and videos for a while now. You can find all past issues here. From now on, I will be posting both here and on my website - homeonrails.com. I hope this newsletter will help you boost your knowledge and archive your career goals!

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Anton Kaliaev@akaliaev

#golang defer makes you sloppy. Try to avoid when dealing with mutexes

3:44 PM · Nov 2, 2018

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Anton Kaliaev@akaliaev

defer + mutexes makes you forget that a) while we're locked, nobody else can access the object (unless its read lock) -> better to unlock earlier b) when you put more code & call other functions between lock / unlock, it becomes easier to deadlock c) defers are slow

3:45 PM · Nov 2, 2018

Anton Kaliaev@akaliaev

More times you don't need a defer

3:58 PM · Nov 2, 2018

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