#memory

2 posts.

Before Asking an AI Agent for a Red-Black Tree: Define the Operating Conditions

What should be explicit when coding with an AI agent? A C shared-memory design illustrates constraints, invariants, test scope, and the reasons worth keeping alongside code.

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Why Did Kafka OOM When Memory Was Still Available?

Kafka broker memory is not just heap and page cache. Direct buffers can fail allocation even when system memory and heap graphs still look healthy.

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