File Get Contents Loads 2GB Crashing 47 Web Servers?!

MEMORY EXPLOSION! file_get_contents() loads ENTIRE 2GB file into RAM! 47 web servers CRASHED! Tax deadline missed! 12K users disconnected! $12M class action lawsuit! Lead developer FIRED!

#php #phpdisaster #filegetcontents #memoryexhaustion #servercrash #taxdeadline #productionbug #phpshorts #phpwtf #outofmemory #careerending #cascadefailure

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File Get Contents Loads 2GB Crashing 47 Web Servers?! #outofmemory

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Returned from holiday to a cold house. Why? Hive heating still in holiday mode. Why? Hub not connected. Why? Network down. Why? Power cut while away fried one of my powerline adapters.

Very much an "I have overcomplicated my home" problem.

#smarthome #firstworldproblems #networking #CascadeFailure

JOY is getting an email from your local indie book store that your preorder is here, even though you totally forgot about it.

Happy #GravityLost day to me (book 2 of the #AmbitsRun series, which started with the EXCELLENT quirky Murderbot+Becky Chambers vibed thing, #CascadeFailure).

@bookstodon

@mathlover I managed to get in a few days ago, just as a safeguard. Slightly alarmed this morning when I went to download as Text verification wasn't working. Another core component broken because of the layoffs. #cascadefailure as they would say in The Expanse.
"We believe humanity could adapt to global warming and extreme weather changes. It is our view that humanity will not survive the extinction of most marine plants and animals.” https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/humanity-will-not-survive-extinction-of-most-marine-plants-and-animals/ #CascadeFailure #environment
Our empty oceans: Scots team's research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life

An Edinburgh-based research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic.

The Sunday Post