A Tale of Two (Memory) Leaks

March 24, 2015 | By

During February, edx-platform suffered from two different issues relating to memory usage in our webapp. After the dust had settled, I wrote up a three-part series detailing the tools we built and used to diagnose the bugs, and a detailed breakdown of each bug, and how we diagnosed them.

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