Memory Traces

Step into the shoes of a seasoned software engineer navigating the tumultuous world of legacy code on a high-stakes Ruby on Rails application. When unexpected memory leaks start causing havoc, demanding urgent fixes while under the pressure of live deployment, you must unravel the complex layers of an application filled with buried bugs, questionable design decisions, and team dynamics. Use your wits and technical know-how to analyze heap dumps, perform memory profiling, and interrogate your team’s code changes over the past week to finally pinpoint the source of the leak before it spirals out of control. Along the way, uncover hidden secrets and motives that will turn debugging into a race against time.