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		westoque on Nov 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer with Go > What do you mean? These seem synonymous to me. What I meant was similar to this talk: https://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism where there is also a load balancer example around 20:20 and using go channels (the primitive I’m pertaining to)

biggestdecision on Nov 10, 2019 [–]

Channels aren't a way to avoid mutexes/locking, they are just meant to be simpler to write & reason about. Channels are implemented using mutexes under the hood.

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