java-design-patterns/poison-pill/index.md

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Intent: Poison Pill is known predefined data item that allows to provide graceful shutdown for separate distributed consumption process.

Applicability: Use the Poison Pill idiom when

• need to send signal from one thread/process to another to terminate

Real world examples:

• akka.actor.PoisonPill