In this Backend Engineering Show episode, Hussein dives into why your backend sometimes needs to gracefully shut down HTTP connections—whether it’s to free up resources, block bad actors, or wrap up in-flight requests without dropping the ball. He kicks things off with a quick overview and real-world use cases before getting hands-on.
The core of the talk covers HTTP/1.1’s trusty Connection: close header and HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame, complete with performance trade-offs and Chromium implementation quirks. Along the way you’ll get timestamped pointers, links to relevant code/issues, and extra resources if you want to level up on backend, networking or database engineering.
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