World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

The Memory Leak That Ate Our Cluster: A Postmortem

A persistent Puppeteer memory leak was silently eating our Node.js cluster. Discover how we finally eliminated OOM crashes and zombie processes using disposable contexts and OS-level process management.

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Preventing memory leaks in long-running web applications

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Isolating metaspace memory leaks with a minimal reproducer

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