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  Migrating to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot often feels like a victory for operational efficiency. You eliminate node pool management, OS patching, and bin-packing headaches. Yet, many engineering teams receive their first Autopilot bill and face immediate shock: the costs are significantly higher than their legacy GKE Standard clusters. The discrepancy usually isn't due to Google's pricing per vCPU. It stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the billing boundary. In GKE Standard, you monetize  efficiency . In GKE Autopilot, you monetize  precision . If your team blindly migrates manifests from Standard to Autopilot without adjusting resource requests, you are paying a hidden "slack tax." This article details the root cause of this cost disparity and provides a technical strategy to audit and fix it. The Root Cause: Node Billing vs. Request Billing To understand the cost leak, we must analyze the architectural differences in how resources are provisio...

  The error is all too familiar. Your Node.js application runs flawlessly on your local machine. You deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster or a Docker container, and suddenly, under load, it crashes. The logs reveal the culprit: FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory Or, even more confusingly, the pod restarts with code  137  (OOM Killed), yet your monitoring tools show the heap usage was seemingly below the container's memory limit. This is not necessarily a memory leak in your code. It is often a fundamental misunderstanding between the Node.js runtime (V8) and the Linux container environment (cgroups). This article explains the disconnect and provides a production-grade configuration to resolve it. The Root Cause: V8 vs. Linux Cgroups To fix the problem, you must understand how V8 allocates memory. By default, Node.js tries to determine the optimal size for the  Old Generation  heap (where long-lived objects reside) base...