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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Is There a Difference Between Mutex and Channels?

I think we probably spend too much time focusing on tiny micro performance, benchmarks when 90% of our latency comes from the network and the disk. My impression though is that mutex and channels they are not interchangeable. If you're at Netflix scale then all of the rules don't apply but if you're not at Netflix scale use whatever you want.

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