Terminating elegantly: a guide to graceful shutdowns
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Graceful shutdowns prevent data loss and connection errors when stopping Go services on Kubernetes. By catching SIGTERM signals, failing the readiness probe first, then using http.Server's Shutdown() to drain pending requests, and finally releasing resources like database connections, you can ensure zero lost requests during rolling deployments — verified against a Redis counter benchmark.
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