Context Cancellation in Go

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In Go, we can use context to send cancellation signals to goroutines that is doing some work. The Done method in context returns a channel that acts as a cancellation signal to goroutines using the given context. When the channel is closed, it indicates to the goroutines that they should stop the work they are doing. We can use WithCancel context function to obtain a new context along with the cancel function that can be used to close the channel.

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