Benjamin Cane 11/15/2025

A common issue I see when teams first adopt `gRPC` is managing persistent connections, especially during failovers.

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This technical article discusses a common operational challenge when adopting gRPC: managing persistent HTTP/2 connections during service failover. It explains why traditional load balancer failover methods fail and presents two primary solutions: using an HTTP/2/gRPC-aware load balancer (e.g., AWS ALB, Envoy) or implementing periodic connection cycling.

A common issue I see when teams first adopt `gRPC` is managing persistent connections, especially during failovers.

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