I haven't needed to maintain a production service using the JVM, but I've seen coworkers debug one where the service was producing too much garbage for the GC t

I haven't needed to maintain a production service using the JVM, but I've seen coworkers debug one where the service was producing too much garbage for the GC to keep up with, and then falling over with an OOM error. No, using another language wouldn't have solved the issue. Modifying the code to reduce the amount of garbage produced was one of the solutions. Deleting the code not too long after was the ultimate solution.