why it is very hard to cancel an HTTP request
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
00:00
Can I Cancel an HTTP Request?
GRPC have the ability to cancel request. GRPC allow you to do an end-to-end connection to a backend. So it's still not easy because at the load balancers, now you have to configure this load balancer algorithm to be essentially what we call this sticky session kind of a request. If you also built your server in goal hang only then you can take advantage of this cancellation.
Transcript
Play full episode
