Redowan Delowar

Software engineering blog by Redowan Delowar covering platform engineering, backend systems, distributed systems, reliability, databases, Go, Python, TypeScript, and pragmatic engineering practice.

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What canceled my Go context?

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How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.