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Topic: Memory Management

Motivation
- Avoid thrashing / crashes
- Allocate resources efficiently
- Keep high uptime
Where
- OS Level
  - Heap management
  - Virtual Memory
- Language/Compiler Level
  - Cpp
  - Garbage collection
  - Ownership
Tools
- Instrumentation
  - Export to Datadog / Grafana
- Python: psutil & tracemalloc
- Valgrind
What to do when your program uses too much memory?
- Reduce data sizes
  - Compression
  - References
  - Lazy initializer
  - Generators & Back Pressure
- Ring buffers
- Arena allocators
- Disk based caching

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