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RSVP is a Go library for HTTP server graceful shutdown

by jbarham·Jun 22, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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Yet another graceful shutdown wrapper when several mature Go libs already exist.

Strengths
  • •Drop-in API matching http.ListenAndServe makes adoption trivial
  • •Demo binary shows graceful vs non-graceful behavior side-by-side
  • •Covers standard config: signals, timeout, TLS, logging
Weaknesses
  • •Multiple established graceful shutdown libs already exist in Go ecosystem
  • •No technical novelty beyond standard signal handling patterns
Target Audience

Go backend developers running HTTP servers

Similar To

graceful · shutdown · httpgraceful

Post Description

After then nth time copying and tweaking boilerplate Go code to enable HTTP graceful shutdown, I decided to package it up in to a library which I've called rsvp (i.e, "please respond").

Basic usage is to call rsvp.ListenAndServe which is a drop-in replacement for the standard library http.ListenAndServe function with graceful shutdown.

The default behavior can be customized with options to configure trigger signals, shutdown timeout and context, TLS and logging.

Full documentation with sample code is at https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jbarham/rsvp#section-documenta....

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