r/programming • u/der_gopher • 1d ago

Terminating elegantly: a guide to graceful shutdowns

https://packagemain.tech/p/graceful-shutdowns-k8s-go
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u/nicofff 17h ago

This article would have saved me so much time a few years ago when I was fighting a websockets (socket.io) service thrashing on scale down. Implemented basically this same pattern, but I had to piece together from docs. This is a really nice end to end explanaition.

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u/jcla 16h ago

I thought this was going to be an entirely different article from the headline...too many tech layoffs in the news lately.

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u/Full-Spectral 15h ago

Collecting evidence of corporate malfeasance to ease your layoff transition.

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u/Smallpaul 4h ago

The opposite strategy is crash-only software. Don’t even attempt graceful shutdown. Just pull the plug.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/crash-only-software