HTTP Graceful Shutdown – The Backend Engineering Show

Ever wondered how to wind down HTTP connections without leaving clients hanging or wasting resources? In this episode Hussein Nasser dives into why you’d want to shut connections gracefully, walks through HTTP/1.1’s Connection header and HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame, and even breaks down the performance costs and code flow (with handy timestamps for each section).

Along the way you’ll get direct links to Chromium source, issue trackers, plus a treasure trove of courses and playlists on Node.js internals, networking, databases, NGINX, Python, and more—perfect if you want to master backend engineering end to end. Enjoy, and keep those pipelines running smoothly!

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