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Archit Agarwal
Archit Agarwal

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๐ŸŽฏ Ever tried preventing multiple instances of an object in Go?

If you've battled race conditions with multiple Goroutines trying to initialize the same resourceโ€”whether it's a cache pool or a loggerโ€”you know the struggle is real!

Good news: Go's sync.Once makes it ridiculously simple to ensure safe, one-time initialization. No more worrying about complex thread-safe code! ๐Ÿš€

๐Ÿ“– In my latest article, I break down:
โœ… Why the Singleton Pattern matters for concurrent applications
โœ… How sync.Once helps prevent race conditions with minimal code
โœ… Real-world examples + code you can try right away!

๐Ÿ“Œ Check it out here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/go-singleton-pattern-using-synconce-safe-efficient-one-time-agarwal-azxoc

๐Ÿ“Œ Code examples in my GitHub repo: https://github.com/architagr/The-Weekly-Golang-Journal/tree/main/sync_once

Let me know your thoughtsโ€”Have you used sync.Once in your projects?

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