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Platform team software engineer at Cyolo. Into sports, code, compilers, distributed systems, and building cool stuff from scratch. And of course, I never say no to good food.
Session at Gophercamp 2026
Leak and Seek: A Go Runtime Mystery
Join us for an in-depth exploration of the Go runtime, where we unravel a real-world memory leak mystery that pushed us deep into the internals of the language. Based on our blog post "Leak and Seek: A Go Runtime Mystery" (https://cyolo.io/blog/leak-and-seek-a-go-runtime-mystery) , this talk takes you behind the scenes of a complex debugging journey. We'll walk through the unexpected behavior we uncovered around Go's finalizers, the pitfalls around it, and the tooling we used to diagnose the issue. Our investigation didn't just end with a fix—it sparked upstream GitHub issues, engaged the Go community in lively discussions, and led to changes planned in future Go releases. You'll leave with insights into Go finalizers, practical debugging strategies, and access to an open-source tool that can help you catch similar issues in your own projects.