HTTP Graceful Shutdown – The Backend Engineering Show

In this episode, Hussein breaks down why you’d ever want to politely close an HTTP connection (think shutting the door behind you to free up resources, kick out shady clients, or just avoid weird edge cases) and walks through how to do it in HTTP/1.1 with the Connection: close header, and in HTTP/2 using the GOAWAY frame—complete with a quick cost analysis of multiplexed streams.

He timestamps all the juicy bits (from a 5-minute setup, to detailed protocol deep‐dives, to a 23:40 wrap-up) and peppers in links to Chromium source, relevant bug tickets, and his own courses on everything from Node.js internals to NGINX, database engineering, and more—plus ways to support him on YouTube or buy him a coffee.

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