2016 07 11 When it’s released later this month, Go 1.7 will move the x/net/context package to the stdlib, as plain old context. It also attaches a context object to net/http.Requests, and gives you a few helper methods. Dedicated Gophers are probably already familiar with the great introductory blog article by Sameer Ajmani, Go Concurrency Patterns: Context, published all the way back in 2014. If