Joonas Bergius • 2/20/2017

Concurrency in Golang and the importance of using locks

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This technical article demonstrates a common race condition in Go when multiple goroutines increment a shared counter without synchronization. It explains the problem, shows incorrect output, and provides a solution using a mutex lock from the sync package to ensure correct, thread-safe results.

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