- On The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein breaks down why you’d ever want to shut down HTTP connections “gracefully” (spoiler: to finish inflight requests, block mischief-makers, and free up resources) and then shows how it’s done differently in HTTP/1.1 (the Connection header) versus HTTP/2 (the GOAWAY frame), complete with performance trade-offs and a peek at Chromium’s socket pool manager.
- Chapters cover motivations (4:58), HTTP/1.1 teardown (6:46), HTTP/2 cost analysis (12:26), the GOAWAY deep dive (17:40), and a quick recap (23:40) — a pulpy, practical guide to cleanly closing connections without dropping the ball.
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