In this Backend Engineering Show episode, Hussein Nasser dives into why and how you’d want to gracefully shut down HTTP connections—preventing bad actors, freeing up resources, and ensuring pending requests finish cleanly. He unpacks HTTP/1.1’s Connection header approach, the cost implications of HTTP/2, and the nitty-gritty of the GOAWAY frame, all neatly timestamped for easy navigation.
Hungry for more? The episode notes are packed with links to Chromium source code, related issue trackers, and a suite of backend/networking/database courses (plus bonus membership perks) to help you level up your engineering game.
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