Concurrency and Goroutines
- What is a Goroutine in Go?
- How do you create and start a Goroutine in Go?
- What is the difference between Goroutines and traditional threads?
- How does Go manage Goroutines internally?
- What is a WaitGroup and how do you use it with Goroutines?
- How do you handle errors in Goroutines?
- What is the
select
statement and how is it used in Go? - What is the purpose of the
sync
package in Go, and how does it help with concurrency? - How do you prevent deadlocks when working with Goroutines?
- What is a race condition, and how can you avoid it in Go?
Error Handling
- How does error handling work in Go?
- How do you define and use custom errors in Go?
- What is the difference between
panic
anderror
in Go? - How do you handle multiple errors returned from a function in Go?
- How does
defer
work in Go, and how is it related to error handling?
Package Management
- What is the purpose of the
go.mod
file in Go? - How do you manage dependencies in Go using Go modules?
- How do you update a dependency in Go using
go get
? - What is the difference between
go get
andgo install
in Go? - What is
go.sum
and why is it important?
Channels and Their Handling
- What is a channel in Go, and how do you use it for communication between Goroutines?
- What is the difference between buffered and unbuffered channels in Go?
- How do you close a channel in Go, and what happens when a channel is closed?
- What is a deadlock in channel communication, and how do you avoid it?
- How does the
select
statement work with channels in Go?
Integration with Kafka
- How do you integrate Kafka with a Go application?
- What are Kafka producers and consumers in Go, and how do you use them?
- How do you handle message serialization and deserialization in Kafka with Go?
- What is the role of the
confluent-kafka-go
package in integrating Go with Kafka? - How do you handle failures and retries in Kafka producers in Go?
Distributed Systems
- What challenges do you face when building distributed systems in Go?
- How do you handle fault tolerance and data consistency in Go-based distributed systems?
- What are some strategies for handling network partitioning in a Go-based distributed system?
- How do you integrate Go with other distributed systems technologies, like gRPC?
- How do you monitor and log a distributed Go application?
Worker Pool
- What is a worker pool pattern in Go, and why is it useful?
- How do you implement a worker pool using Goroutines and channels in Go?
- How do you ensure that all worker pool tasks are completed before the program exits?
- How do you control the number of workers in a worker pool in Go?
- How can you optimize a worker pool to handle large volumes of tasks?
Performance Optimization
- How can you profile the performance of a Go application?
- What tools and libraries are available in Go for performance monitoring?
- How do you optimize memory usage in Go applications?
- How do you reduce latency in a Go application?
- What are some techniques for optimizing I/O performance in Go?
Sync and Mutex
- What is the purpose of a Mutex in Go, and how do you use it?
- How does
sync.RWMutex
differ fromsync.Mutex
in Go? - What is the purpose of
sync/atomic
in Go, and when should you use it? - How do you avoid race conditions when using shared resources in Go?
- How do you implement a read-write lock in Go?