Every garbage-collected language quietly hides a complex piece of infrastructure that occasionally pauses your program to clean up memory. The pause times, the allocation patterns, the throughput trade-offs -- they decide whether your service has graceful tail latency or random multi-second hiccups. You don't need to write a GC; you need to understand the one that's running your code.
Engineering Craft
TypeScript, CI/CD, databases, observability -- the skills that make code production-ready.
