We can make a program concurrent if we can split it as multiple independent tasks executed at the same time. In concurrency, we execute different portions of a program at the same time (on single or multiple CPU threads) whereas in parallelism a singular task (or subtasks) is executed parallelly on multiple CPU threads. Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once....

Reading and writing files is one of the most common tasks in programming projects. Using this skill we can store data persistently and decrease the memory consumption of our program. Paths The path/filepath package provides filepath.Join() function to create filesystem paths for files and directories. The same could also be achieved with string concatenation in Go but it won’t be interoperable between different operating systems (Linux uses the forward slash (/) for separators in the path whereas Windows uses the backward slash (\))....

Go is a compiled language developed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google. It is primarily used in cloud-native and web development projects. Some of the popular projects created with Go Docker: Container Engine Kubernetes: Container Orchestrator Hugo: Static Site Generator (Also used to generate this blog) Helm: Package manager for Kubernetes Packages A Package abstraction is created in Go to group functions that are related to each other or associated with a specific task....

Telcos (Telecommunication companies) deploy networks that have high availability, are scalable, and resilient covering entire countries. Components like routers, firewalls, and DHCP servers (called Network Functions) are the building blocks of such large network deployments. Traditionally, network functions were deployed on proprietary hardware with application-specific integrated circuits and installed on the telco’s premise (baremetal deployment). Such network functions are called Platform Network Functions (PNFs). PNF deployments present the following challenges:...

There is a multitude of choices for storage solutions (Amazon S3, Ceph, Google Cloud Storage, etc.) and combined with the choices of container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, etc.) the permutations are endless. A Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin is implemented by the storage providers (Amazon, Google, IBM) as an interface to provision and mount volumes for workloads when requested by container orchestrators. The CSI plugin provisions the volume, procures it from the node hosting the container, and mounts it to the requesting container....