Liang Gong

Liang Gong

Liang Gong works at Meta on building and optimizing web and developer infrastructure, with a focus on improving performance, memory efficiency, reliability, and user engagement. He is the creator of the open-source project MemLab and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley, where his research was in the area of programming languages, software engineering, and JavaScript program analysis.
MemLab: Automating Memory Leak Detection and Heap Analysis
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MemLab: Automating Memory Leak Detection and Heap Analysis
Memory leaks in single-page applications are often viewed as mere technical debt, but data shows they directly degrade user experience and engagement. In this talk, we introduce MemLab, an automated framework that identifies memory leaks by simulating user interactions and analyzing heap snapshots.