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Node.js Quiz Practice
Active Recall Drill Session
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Question 1 of 1
medium
Node.js
A team's deploy process routinely sends SIGTERM to scale down old instances, and they notice a small spike in failed requests during every deploy. What's the most likely root cause, based on this topic?
A
Network instability unrelated to the application
B
No graceful shutdown handling — SIGTERM is likely terminating instances immediately, dropping in-flight requests instead of letting them finish
C
The database is overloaded
D
This is unavoidable and not related to application code
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