HTTP Graceful Shutdown (The Backend Engineering Show)

In this episode, Hussein Nasser walks you through why and how backends should close HTTP connections gracefully—think preventing resource hogging, blocking bad actors, and letting in-flight requests finish without drama. He kicks off with HTTP/1.1’s Connection: close approach, then digs into HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame, weighs the performance costs, and wraps up with best practices.

You’ll find handy timestamps to jump straight to each topic, plus links to Chromium source, issue trackers, and related courses on Node.js internals, networking, databases, and more.

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