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kacerrandClaude Fable 5 7219eb5a23 Initial commit: Go SRE interview exercises
Includes solved 02-worker-pool and 09-safe-counter (mutex, atomic, sharded).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GbnJj9ZqEx9nUvzkjdwfMq
2026-08-28 22:18:09 +02:00

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// SPOT THE LEAK. Run it — it prints goroutine counts. Explain why the number
// grows, then fix it with a one-character-ish change.
package main
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"runtime"
"time"
)
func fetch() (string, error) {
ch := make(chan string)
go func() {
time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond) // pretend slow upstream
ch <- "body"
}()
select {
case body := <-ch:
return body, nil
case <-time.After(10 * time.Millisecond): // timeout fires first
return "", errors.New("timeout")
}
}
func main() {
for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
fetch()
}
time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond)
fmt.Println("goroutines still alive:", runtime.NumGoroutine()) // expected: 1
}