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title: "Tebeka Shorts: Handling OS Signals in Go for Graceful Shutdowns"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/tebeka-shorts-handling-os-signals-in-go-for-graceful-shutdowns-m5hoqicca
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV7DmYCv3Q
type: video:youtube
source: "Ardan Labs (YouTube)"
published: 2026-06-01T16:52:37.417Z
updated: 2026-06-01T16:52:54.479Z
tags: ["golang"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Tebeka Shorts: Handling OS Signals in Go for Graceful Shutdowns

**[Ardan Labs \(YouTube\)](https://daily.dev/sources/ardanlabs-youtube)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A short tutorial demonstrating how to handle OS signals (SIGINT and SIGTERM) in Go to enable graceful shutdowns. The problem is illustrated first: a web server that skips cleanup code when killed with Ctrl+C. The solution uses a buffered channel, the signal.Notify function, and a goroutine running the server, combined with a select statement that catches signals and triggers a context-bounded server shutdown, allowing deferred cleanup code to execute properly.

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