TL;DR: The slice length is the number of available elements in the slice, whereas the slice capacity is the number of elements in the backing array, counting from the first element in the slice. It’s common for Go developers to mix slice length and capacity or not understand them thoroughly. Assimilating these two concepts is […]

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What is the Orchestrator Pattern? Adam Bellemare defines it in his book “Building Event-Driven Microservices” as a “pattern where a central Microservice, issues commands to and awaits responses from subordinate worker Microservices”. Pros of using the Orchestrator Pattern with Golang ■ It’s relatively easy to implement and maintain because all coordination is in one place. […]

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