Knowing when to stop by watching for interrupts

When building robust applications, it’s crucial to handle interrupts gracefully, ensuring the software can respond appropriately to signals indicating it should stop or perform a specific action. In Go, the standard way to achieve this is by monitoring interrupt signals, allowing the application to shut down or clean up resources in an orderly manner.

Graceful shutdown, or termination, is an important concept in computer science in general. Unforeseen events, server maintenance, or external factors might require your application to stop gracefully. This could involve releasing resources, saving state, or notifying connected clients. A graceful shutdown ensures your application remains reliable and predictable, minimizing the risk of data corruption or loss.

Abruptly terminating an application without proper cleanup can lead to various issues, such as incomplete transactions, resource leaks, corrupted data, and more. Graceful...