Starting and stopping things — GopherCon Singapore 2026
Speaker: Dave Cheney In Go it’s trivia to start a goroutine, but, as I’m fond of saying, do you know when that goroutine will stop? How will it stop it? How will you know when it has stopped? This is a talk about a solution I find myself rewriting on pretty much every backend Go service I work on. Even in a microservice shop, the requirement to set up a bunch of parallel goroutines is ubiquitous. This is a story about concurrency vs parallelism, the places where it exists today in the std lib and where it does not, the patterns that evolve from that statement, and an introduction to the group type, an idea which has evolved since the Juju days a decade ago of William Reade’s Manifold, through Peter Bourgon’s “How I do things” talk, and through many of my own iterations.
GopherCon Singapore
Dave Cheney