[jefftk]

Just because you need to be able to handle an employee being hit by a bus doesn't mean employees should ghost their companies, or that companies shouldn't have systems for when someone gives their two weeks notice.

The article gives the examples that "A load balancer might stop accepting new connections and disable its readiness endpoint. A database might flush to disk. An agent might inform a cluster it’s leaving the group." All of these seem like they're worth doing, and improve expected case shutdown behavior, though you should also write and test the abrupt shutdown case.