| layout | pattern | |||
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| title | Poison Pill | |||
| folder | poison-pill | |||
| permalink | /patterns/poison-pill/ | |||
| categories | Other | |||
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Poison Pill is known predefined data item that allows to provide graceful shutdown for separate distributed consumption process.
Use the Poison Pill idiom when
- need to send signal from one thread/process to another to terminate