https://p.agnihotry.com/tags/programming/ Recent content in Programming on Parikshit Agnihotry Hugo en Thu, 31 May 2018 06:00:00 -0800 https://p.agnihotry.com/post/understanding_the_context_package_in_golang/ Thu, 31 May 2018 06:00:00 -0800 https://p.agnihotry.com/post/understanding_the_context_package_in_golang/ <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://p.agnihotry.com/css/hugo-easy-gallery.css" /> <div class="box" > <figure itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <div class="img"> <img itemprop="thumbnail" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/pagnihotry/image/upload/v1532622064/pagnihotry/Go-Logo_Blue-trimmed.jpg" alt="https://res.cloudinary.com/pagnihotry/image/upload/v1532622064/pagnihotry/Go-Logo_Blue-trimmed.jpg"/> </div> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/pagnihotry/image/upload/v1532622064/pagnihotry/Go-Logo_Blue-trimmed.jpg" itemprop="contentUrl"></a> </figure> </div> <p>The context package in go can come in handy while interacting with APIs and slow processes, especially in production-grade systems that serve web requests. Where, you might want to notify all the goroutines to stop work and return. Here is a basic tutorial on how you can use it in your projects with some best practices and gotchas.</p>