HTTP Graceful Shutdown TL;DR
Every so often your backend needs to close shop without leaving clients hanging or gobbling resources. In this episode of The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein kicks off by explaining why you’d ever want to shut connections down gracefully—think resource cleanup, blocking mischief-makers and finishing up in-flight requests—then walks through the classic HTTP/1.1 “Connection: close” approach.
Next up, he dives into HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame, shows you the performance trade-offs compared to HTTP/1.1, and even points you to Chromium’s socket pool code and issue trackers for the nitty-gritty. By the end you’ll have a clear, practical playbook for polite connection teardown and links to deep-dive resources if you’re hungry for more.
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