Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng at 06 Apr 2023, 14:30 UTC

At the beginning of this year, we ran several experiments aimed at reducing the latency impact of the Ruby garbage collector (GC) in Shopify's monolith. In this article, Jean talks about the changes we made to improve GC performance, and more importantly, how we got to these changes.

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• T1Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive MonolithStripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng06 Apr 2023, 14:30