This Go Trick Saves Your Microservice

Description

Hook: Stop wasting CPU and DB connections — learn the one Go trick that makes microservices resilient. Problem: In distributed systems, cancelled requests or timeouts can leave goroutines, DB connections, and HTTP calls hanging — costing resources and causing flakiness. Solution: In 45s I break down context.Context for Go microservices: cancellation, WithTimeout/WithCancel, request-scoped values (traceID), and best practices like always calling cancel() and passing ctx to I/O functions. See how propagating ctx across Service A → B → DB instantly stops wasted work and improves observability. Like and share if this helped! Questions? Drop them in the comments. #Go #Golang #Microservices #Context #Timeouts #Cancellation #TraceID