In this episode of The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein Nasser dives into why you can’t just slam the door on HTTP clients—graceful shutdowns help you finish in-flight requests, thwart bad actors and free up resources without chaos.
He walks through HTTP/1.1’s Connection header approach, weighs the performance trade-offs of HTTP/2, then unpacks how the GOAWAY frame lets you signal “I’m done” without dropping everything abruptly. Plus, you’ll find links to deep-dive courses on OS fundamentals, Node.js internals, backend troubleshooting, networking, databases and more.
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