Graceful shutdown in HTTP

There are cases where the backend may need to close the connection to prevent unexpected situations, prevent bad actors or simply just free up resources. Closing a connection gracefully allows clients and backends to clean up and finish any pending requests. In this episode of the backend engineering show I discuss graceful connections in both HTTP/1.1 via the connection header and HTTP/2 via the GOAWAY frame. 0:00 Intro 4:58 Why shutdown connection? 6:46 HTTP/1.1 Graceful shutdown 12:26 Cost of HTTP/2 17:40 HTTP/2 GoAWAY frame 23:40 Summary Links

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Graceful shutdown in HTTP is an episode from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser.

This episode is 00:25:49 long.

This episode was published on Oct 17, 2025.

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