HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show
Hussein Nasser walks us through why you’d ever want to politely close an HTTP connection—think freeing up resources, stopping misbehaving clients, and avoiding nasty surprises. He shows how HTTP/1.1 leans on the Connection header to wind things down and what performance trade-offs pop up in HTTP/2 before digging into the GOAWAY frame’s role in politely saying “that’s all, folks.”
Along the way you get handy timestamps (from the 0:00 intro to the 23:40 summary), links to Chromium source and issue trackers, plus a ton of additional learning goodies—Node.js internals, backend troubleshooting, database and networking courses, and more—so you can keep your backend game tight.
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