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Graceful shutdown in HTTP

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser

Oct 17, 202500:25:49Technology

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 cle...

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