golang-concurrency

Prevent goroutine leaks by ensuring all goroutines exit properly via context cancellation, signal channels, or WaitGroup coordination. Analyzing your Go code helps enforce these safe concurrency patterns and avoid improper channel closures.

Avoid time.After in loops because it creates a new timer every iteration that is not garbage collected until it fires, causing resource leaks. Safe concurrency patterns dictate using context cancellation or signal channels for loop shutdown instead.

Use context cancellation by passing a context to worker goroutines and selecting on context.Done. Implement a tiny Go example with a select statement to gracefully stop workers, ensuring all goroutines exit when the context is canceled.

Review Go channels and synchronization primitives by checking context propagation, proper use of WaitGroup or errgroup, and channel direction. Apply safe concurrency patterns to PR audits to ensure goroutine lifecycles are managed correctly.

Yes, use errgroup to coordinate goroutine shutdown and propagate errors. Analyzing Go code for proper use of errgroup alongside WaitGroup ensures safe concurrency patterns and helps avoid leaks during code reviews.

Yes, analyzing Go code includes checking for improper channel closures to avoid concurrency issues. It enforces safe patterns by ensuring all goroutines exit via context cancellation, signal channels, or WaitGroup coordination.