Graceful Server

Server life cycle

It’s not ideal if a server intercepts any interrupt or kill signal (SIGTERM or SIGKILL) and shuts down with a fatal error. Let’s learn how to create a well-defined server entity and manage its life cycle gracefully.

A server goes through three life cycle stages, which have been given below:

• Prestart

• Start

• Shutdown

Yes, we could certainly get more micromanaged than this, but, on a high level, these are the significant checkpoints that we want to keep an eye on.

We will focus on the “Start” step first. It is essentially the same as ...