HTTP Graceful Shutdown TL;DR
Ever needed to kill a pesky hung connection without leaving your clients hanging? This episode of The Backend Engineering Show dives into why and how you should gracefully close HTTP connections—letting in-flight requests finish, blocking misbehaving clients, and freeing up precious server resources. We kick off with HTTP/1.1’s trusty Connection header, then unpack the cost and complexity of HTTP/2 before showing how its GOAWAY frame lets you signal “I’m outta here” without dropping active streams.
Whether you’re tuning Node.js internals or tracking down Chromium socket pool bugs, you’ll get a solid view of the shutdown handshake: from the theory at 4:58, through the nitty-gritty of headers at 6:46, to the GOAWAY deep dive at 17:40—and a wrap-up at 23:40. Perfect for backend engineers who hate nasty surprises and love smooth, predictable server behavior.
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