Hussein Nasser: HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show

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HTTP Graceful Shutdown TL;DR

In this episode of the Backend Engineering Show, Hussein dives into why you’d want to close HTTP connections cleanly—to free up resources, avoid weird edge cases and block bad actors—and how to do it in both HTTP/1.1 (using the Connection header) and HTTP/2 (with the GOAWAY frame). He also breaks down the performance trade-offs of HTTP/2’s approach.

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