Ever wondered how to quietly kill off HTTP connections without breaking things? Hussein Nasser’s latest Backend Engineering Show episode dives into why you’d need a graceful shutdown (think dodging bad actors and freeing resources) and how to do it cleanly. He compares HTTP/1.1’s Connection: close handshake with HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame, highlights performance costs, and shares best practices for wrapping up pending requests.
Follow along as he kicks off with an intro (0:00), explains the shutdown “why” (4:58), unpacks HTTP/1.1 (6:46), weighs HTTP/2 trade-offs (12:26), breaks down GOAWAY (17:40), and wraps up at 23:40. Plus, find handy links to Chromium code, issue trackers, and bonus backend courses to level up your skills.
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