Taming the Goroutine Beast
summary
Open-source goroutine manager that replaces go with NewAsyncRoutine and attaches a name, context and custom data to each goroutine; a background monitor snapshots routines every 0.5s and notifies pluggable observers so you get timebox + observers alerts and per-name counts. Demo shows routine totals climbing (21→33→43→58) until the manager flags repeating doJob goroutines, records the URL that failed, reveals an ignored error that leaves a send blocked, and after the fix routine count stabilizes near one.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Red Hat and OpenShift intro
- 1:09Goroutine leak in production
- 2:35Debugging goroutine challenges
- 5:49Goroutine leaks code demo
- 7:35Debugging tool limitations
- 8:18New Goroutine framework goals
- 9:21Sync Routine Manager intro
- 10:24Framework architecture
- 13:51Live demo setup
- 16:13Integrating Sync Routine Manager
- 18:22Real-time routine monitoring
- 20:35Leaking routines by name
- 22:03Long-running routines detection
- 24:40Root cause analysis
- 26:12Production release and open source
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