Best way to implement global counters for highly concurrent applications?

Question

What is the best way to implement global counters for a highly concurrent application? In my case I may have 10K-20K go routines performing \"work\", and I want to count th

Answer 1

Old question but I just stumbled upon this and it may help: https://github.com/uber-go/atomic

Basically the engineers at Uber has built a few nice util functions on top of the sync/atomic package

I haven't tested this in production yet but the codebase is very small and the implementation of most functions is quite stock standard

Definitely preferred over using channels or basic mutexes