In January 2025, Alex Weber enhanced the EVerest/everest-framework by implementing graceful shutdown capabilities to improve application resilience and observability. Using C++ and system programming techniques, Alex introduced signal handlers for SIGTERM and SIGINT, ensuring the application could terminate cleanly while reliably executing registered atexit handlers. This approach enabled automatic dumping of gcov statistics and other cleanup tasks, reducing the risk of data loss during shutdown. Signal handling was initialized at module load time, providing robust coverage across startup and runtime. The work demonstrated a focused, in-depth solution to termination-related issues, leveraging expertise in C++ and signal handling.