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Hussein Nasser: HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show

HTTP graceful shutdown

Hussein breaks down why servers need to politely close connections—whether it’s to free resources, finish pending requests or keep bad actors at bay—and shows how HTTP/1.1 uses the Connection: close header while HTTP/2 relies on the GOAWAY frame for a clean disconnect.

He timestamps every section (0:00 intro, 4:58 why shutdown, 6:46 HTTP/1.1, 17:40 GOAWAY, 23:40 wrap-up) and drops links to Chromium’s socket manager code, related issues and a stack of backend/networking/DB engineering courses to help you level up.

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