BackendGeneral
Memory Leak
Also written as Garbage Collection, GC, OOM
Memory that's allocated but never released, so a process slowly grows until it's killed — often after days of apparently healthy operation.
Think of it like
A kitchen that never washes up: fine for one service, unusable by the end of the week.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Knows the term.
Senior sounds like
Has profiled one in production, and can describe the symptom pattern — restarts that 'fix' it being the giveaway.
Ask them
“How did you find what was leaking, and how did you confirm the fix?”