| layout | pattern | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| title | Poison Pill | ||
| folder | poison-pill | ||
| permalink | /patterns/poison-pill/ | ||
| categories | Behavioral | ||
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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