TL;DR
In this Backend Engineering Show episode, Hussein dives into why you’d want to gracefully shut down HTTP connections (think security, resource cleanup and keeping clients happy) and then walks through how to do it in HTTP/1.1 with the Connection header. He also explores the cost of HTTP/2 before breaking down the GOAWAY frame so you can politely signal “that’s all, folks” without dropping any pending requests.
He even timestamps each key section—4:58 for the “why,” 6:46 for HTTP/1.1, 17:40 for HTTP/2 GOAWAY—and wraps it all up at 23:40. Plus, you get handy links to Chromium source, Node.js internals and more if you want to dive deeper. 🎧
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