TL;DR

The Backend Engineering Show breaks down why and how to shut down HTTP connections gracefully—covering HTTP/1.1 via the Connection header and HTTP/2 with the GOAWAY frame—so your clients and servers can finish pending work, block misbehaving peers, and free up resources without nasty side effects.

Alongside clear chapter timestamps, you’ll find a treasure trove of links to courses on operating systems, Node.js internals, networking, databases, NGINX, Python and more—plus community channels, podcast episodes, and affiliate tools to level up your backend game.

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