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		capableweb on Jan 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless Couldn't you just disable the garbage collector in those languages? I know you can select a "none" GC in the JVM, you should be able to do the same with other runtimes too.

emptysea on Jan 22, 2023 [–]

Yeah Instagram has some blog posts outlining how they run their python web servers with the GC disabled

Easy enough to restart the processes every once in a while

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