Timeout Context In Go
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2 min readMay 5, 2022
In concurrent programming with Golang, the context package is a powerful tool to manage operations like timeouts, cancelation, deadlines, etc.
Among these operations, context with timeout is mainly used when we want to make an external request, such as a network request or a database request. I will show you how to use it to timeout a goroutine in this post.
Let’s first see a simple example.