[steakejjs]

So I wrote a golang application and it runs behind nginx. My server "restart" when I want to push new code is,

Re run my program on a different port, point nginx at the new port, reload nginx, kill the old.

Curious what is so bad about this approach? I admit it's hacky, but it works. Is there just too many things to do?

[blakecaldwell]

Similar to what we do. We have two instances of our services behind HAProxy. We drain and kill one instance, then restart or upgrade it, add it back to the pool, then do the same for the other. Nothing hacky about it, and it's language/framework independent.

[alexk]

There's nothing wrong with this approach, in either way you have to ensure that there are no active requests in flight when restarting - you can do this either from nginx side, server side or both.

[_Soulou]

Actually, we are not only using this for HTTP services, but also for our SSH server (the one I've introduced last week). This method was mandatory for us!

Edit: typo