HTTP graceful shutdown is all about letting clients and servers wind down connections without awkward drops or resource leaks. In this episode of The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein Nasser explains why you’d ever want to kill connections on purpose, walks through HTTP/1.1’s “Connection: close” approach (6:46), breaks down the cost of HTTP/2, and shows how the GOAWAY frame seals the deal in HTTP/2 (17:40).
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