Concurrency is not parallelism

Conceptual framing for Go concurrency: structuring work, not merely running things simultaneously.

• Author: Rob Pike
• Authority: primary
• Kind: talk
• URL: https://go.dev/talks/2012/concurrency.slide

What it covers

• concurrency mental model
• parallelism distinction
• design motivation for goroutines and channels

Why authoritative

Canonical Rob Pike talk that frames the design intent behind Go concurrency.

Use when

• am I confusing concurrency and parallelism in Go
• should this use concurrency at all
• what problem is Go concurrency solving here

Keywords

• concurrency, parallelism, goroutines, design, mental model

Used by

• goroutine-lifecycle