Ever wondered how to gracefully kill a lingering HTTP connection without knocking over your backend? In this episode of The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein Nasser walks through why you’d want to shut down connections, how HTTP/1.1 uses the Connection header to wrap things up neatly, and why HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame is your friend for draining streams before a hard close.
He also dives into performance trade-offs, walks you through Chromium’s socket pool logic, and shares links to code samples, issue trackers, and related courses for deeper learning. Perfect for anyone tuning their backend to handle shutdowns like a pro!
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