Graceful Shutdown

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:graceful-shutdown

Severity: contextual

Scope: service, runtime, resilience

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that, on a stop signal, stops accepting work, drains in-flight work and closes connections before the process exits.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Chaos Engineering and before RAID Redundancy.

Requires

• Lifecycle Signals

Reinforces

• Reliability
• Data Integrity

Enables

• In-Flight Work Drain
• Connection Cleanup

Conflicts with

• Hard Process Kill

In tension with

• Shutdown Latency

Tensions

• Graceful Shutdown / Shutdown Latency

Violated by

• Hard Process Kill

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Linked from

• Computation and resource
• Quality Attributes
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Severity levels
• The resolutions