HTTP Graceful Shutdown: The Backend Engineering Show

Ever wondered how to close HTTP connections without dropping the ball? In this episode, Hussein walks through why you’d want to gracefully shut down connections—whether to thwart bad actors or free up resources—and then digs into how it works in HTTP/1.1 (via the Connection header) and HTTP/2 (with the GOAWAY frame). He even covers the performance trade-offs in HTTP/2, spots in Chromium’s socket pool code, and wraps up with key takeaways so you can cleanly terminate connections without breaking anything.

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