Now http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/web.html has signals chapter but it mentions `on_prepare` only: http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/web.html#signals There are another topics about graceful shutdown: http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/web.html#graceful-shutdown and background tasks: http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/web.html#background-tasks But we need explicit topic for pointing on redis/postgres/whatever initialization/cleaning-up. See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45134300/aioredis-aiohttp-proper-usage-of-connection-pooling