Checksum in golang

Mr. G: fetch my account balance

Computer: sure i’ll start a thread to process your request, processing beep beep beep…

Mr. G: fetch my account balance

Computer: Wait, you sent a same request earlier which is already being processed.

Mr. G: how do you know that?

Computer: Checksums 😎

Now you might have an idea why we need checksum, If our server receive multiple request to perform same operation we can reject redundant requests. It can save a lot of …

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