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Node.js Quiz Practice
Active Recall Drill Session
← Exit Session
Question 1 of 1
medium
Node.js
Why does the absence of graceful shutdown handling matter in production specifically?
A
It doesn't — it's only a development concern
B
Process managers and orchestrators send SIGTERM routinely during normal deploys, so its absence causes real, measurable dropped requests / error-rate spikes at deploy time
C
It only affects logging output
D
It only matters for CPU-bound applications
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