Hussein Nasser: HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show

In this episode of The Backend Engineering Show, Hussein Nasser explains why backends sometimes need to close connections gracefully—to avoid resource leaks, fend off bad actors, and ensure clients finish pending requests. He walks through HTTP/1.1’s Connection header approach and HTTP/2’s GOAWAY frame, discussing implementation costs and best practices with handy timestamps for each topic.

For those hungry for more, he links to the full YouTube video, Chromium source code, issue trackers, and a bounty of backend, networking, and database engineering courses and playlists to sharpen your skills.

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