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Archit Agarwal
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Prevent Race Conditions Like a Pro with sync.Mutex in Go!

πŸ“’ New Article Alert: Prevent Race Conditions Like a Pro with sync.Mutex in Go! πŸš€

Ever encountered unpredictable behavior in your Go programs, like multiple orders being created with the same order number during a big sale? 🀯

This often happens due to race conditions when shared resources aren't properly synchronized. In my latest article, I cover:

βœ… What is sync.Mutex and how it works in Go
βœ… A practical code example showing how to fix race conditions
βœ… Real-world use case: Fixing an order number generator
βœ… Best practices and how sync.Mutex compares with sync.RWMutex

πŸ‘‰ Read the full article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/prevent-race-conditions-like-pro-mastering-syncmutex-go-agarwal-so9sc

Let’s write safer and more efficient concurrent code in Go! πŸ’‘
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