Last Updated: May 22, 2026
Fetching 10,000 product detail records concurrently on a 4-core machine would crush the kernel if each goroutine required its own OS thread. Go avoids this with a few worker threads and the GMP scheduler. This lesson explains the three components Go uses to run goroutines, how they fit together, and why this model lets a single program juggle millions of goroutines without melting the operating system.