threading problems with QueueService subclasses

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Bug summary

in 3.x versions, we have noticed quite a few strange errors related to different implementations of QueueService, like:

• APILogWorker

**errors about registering atexit handler**

• EventsWorker

RuntimeError: Cannot put items in a stopped service instance.

Reproduction

there is not a clean MRE as there is not one specific problem here

there is some problem related to threading here

Error

(written above)

Versions (prefect version output)

» prefect version
Version:             3.0.0rc10+88.g6df736e5cc
API version:         0.8.4
Python version:      3.12.3
Git commit:          6df736e5
Built:               Tue, Jul 16, 2024 10:57 AM
OS/Arch:             darwin/arm64
Profile:             bleeding
Server type:         server
Pydantic version:    2.8.2
Integrations:
  prefect-aws:       0.5.0rc2
  prefect-github:    0.3.0rc2
  prefect-docker:    0.6.0rc3

Additional context

potentially relevant:

• 3.12 regression: "can't create new thread at interpreter shutdown" from non-daemon threads or atexit handlers python/cpython#113964