https://cassiobotaro.dev/en/tags/worker/Recent content in Worker on cassiobotaroHugoenMon, 05 Oct 2026 22:04:50 -0300https://cassiobotaro.dev/en/posts/go-concurrency-worker/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cassiobotaro.dev/en/posts/go-concurrency-worker/<video src="https://cassiobotaro.dev/videos/trabalhador.mp4" title="A goroutine consuming values from a channel" aria-label="A goroutine consuming values from a channel" autoplay loop muted playsinline controls preload="metadata" style="width: 100%; height: auto;"> </video> <p>In the <a href="https://cassiobotaro.dev/en/posts/go-concurrency-generators/" >generator</a> a goroutine wrote to the channel and <code>main</code> read from it.</p> <p>Now the roles flip. The one reading is the goroutine.</p> <h2 id="what-a-worker-is"> What a worker is <a class="heading-link" href="#what-a-worker-is"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>A worker is a goroutine that receives values from a channel and processes them until the channel is closed.</p>