HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show

In this episode, Hussein walks you through why and how backends politely close connections—using the Connection header in HTTP/1.1 to finish pending requests before dropping clients, and the GOAWAY frame in HTTP/2 to signal “no more new streams” while letting in-flight ones wrap up. He also breaks down the performance costs of HTTP/2 shutdowns and shares timestamps so you can jump right to the juicy bits.

You’ll find a ton of handy links—Chromium source dives, GitHub/issue trackers, and a slew of courses on everything from Node.js internals to database engineering, NGINX and networking. Bonus: join Hussein’s YouTube membership, grab coupons for Udemy, or support him with a coffee if you found the show useful!

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