Implementing Graceful Shutdown in Go

• Rudderstack

  83 3,940 9.8 Go

  Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React

  

When I started looking into shutdown at RudderStack, I saw a number of anti patterns that we were following---for example using os.Exit(1) (more on this later)---and decided it was time to implement a graceful shutdown mechanism for Rudder Server. At RudderStack we are building an important part of the modern data stack. RudderStack is responsible for capturing, processing, and delivering data to important parts of a company's infrastructure. So, making sure everything is predictable and ensuring there is no chance for data loss whenever we have to interact with a service is incredibly important. This gave me two main goals with graceful shutdown:

• graceful-shutdown-examples

  1 15 3.2 Go

  Code examples for graceful shutdown

  

A full working example can be found under our example repo, feel free to experiment by commenting out BaseContextor or httpServer.Shutdown.

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