Category Multiton

Design Patterns, Lazy initialization, Multiton, Rust, Structs, Traits

A Guide to Flexible & Easy Thread-Safe Rust: Unveiling the Multiton Pattern for Efficient Lazy Initialization

Introduction The Singleton may be one of the most familiar design patterns. However sometimes it is necessary not have just one object of a certain type in your program, but several. That is when the Multiton comes in. The Multiton…

The Code Nomad
22 July 2025

Concurrency, Go, Go lang, Lazy initialization, Multiton

Lazy initialization and multiton: a cheap way of creating expensive objects in Go

Sometimes creating an object is expensive, either an object takes up a lot of resources, or costs time to initialize because of external dependencies, like web services or databases. Then it might be a good idea to construct the object…

The Code Nomad
11 October 2023