In this episode of The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein walks you through why and how to shut down HTTP connections gracefully—saving resources, dodging misbehaving clients, and cleaning up in-flight requests. You’ll get a deep dive into HTTP/1.1’s Connection header, the trade-offs of HTTP/2, and a clear walkthrough of the GOAWAY frame, all broken out with handy timestamps.
Along the way, he drops links to Chromium source code, issue trackers, and a suite of backend courses (Node.js internals, networking, databases, NGINX, Python, and more) so you can level up your backend game.
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