advancedProduction Best Practices
Why does a service need graceful shutdown configured, not just a health check?
Without it, Kubernetes' termination signal during a routine deployment hard-kills in-flight requests instead of letting them finish, producing user-visible errors on every single deployment — `server.shutdown=graceful` stops accepting new requests immediately while letting existing ones complete within a timeout.
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