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# Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall)

## Description

You thought you didn't have tio think about memory management and memory leaks when you were done with C? Think again!

Join me starting the dive by looking at how golang allocates and deallocates memory, and the workings of the garbage collector. Learn how the stack and heap works. And why does my substring allocate so much memory?

We'll dip our toes into some pitfalls we all are guilty of, and some that are real edge cases. We're looking at quite a lot of code examples, and coding patterns. What can cause your application, website or k8s operator to consume increasingly amounts of memory? And how to avoid it without crashing out in a OOM (Out of memory) error?

And can I actually answer all of my own questions? Maybe more? Will you even know without joining in? 



## Speaker

### [Manfred Bjørlin](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@manfred-bjorlin)

Principal Cloud Native Architect at Sopra Steria


## Related talks at this congress

- [Swapping Code, Losing Memory: A JVM Deep Dive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1365-swapping-code-losing) — Marco Sussitz
- [What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1313-what-if-we-ve-been) — Hartmut Armbruster
- [The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1161-the-opentelemetry) — Juraci Paixão Kröhling
- [Go's Concurrency and Parallelism Inside Containers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1056-go-s-concurrency-and) — Rick Rackow