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# Offloading IoT State: Solving the Memory Crisis on Legacy Hardware


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Every developer working with IoT or Smart TVs has met the ultimate villain: the Out-of-Memory (OOM) killer. As digital commerce grows more complex, we’re asking low-spec hardware, often with less than 1GB of RAM—to juggle massive JSON payloads and multi-step transactional state machines. The result? System stutters, service crashes, and lost revenue.

In this 10-minute lightning talk, we’ll look at a practical architectural pattern to solve this: The State-Shift. Instead of asking a resource-constrained device to manage complex logic, we migrate the entire transactional state and error-recovery mechanism to a cloud-side "Stateful BFF" (Backend-for-Frontend).

We’ll quickly cover:
- The "Thin-Client" Transformation: How to turn a struggling device into a stateless observer.

- The Double-Handshake: A simple pattern for state recovery after a hard reboot.

- The Results: Real-world metrics showing how this shift can cut heap usage by 35%.

You’ll walk away with a clear blueprint for extending the life of legacy hardware without sacrificing modern functionality.

## Speaker

### [Pravin Nagare](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@pravin-nagare)

Senior Software Engineer, Roku


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