HTTP Graceful Shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show

In this episode, Hussein Nasser dives into why and how you’d gracefully close HTTP connections—whether it’s to thwart bad actors, free up resources or finish pending requests—covering HTTP/1.1 via the Connection header and HTTP/2 with the GOAWAY frame.

Along the way you get timestamps for each deep-dive (from “Why shutdown?” at 4:58 to the GOAWAY breakdown at 17:40), links to Chromium’s socket pool code, and a buffet of related courses and resources on Node.js internals, backend networking, databases and more.

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