Dissecting an outage caused by eager-loading file content
Python makes it freakishly easy to load the whole content of any file into memory and process it afterward. This is one of the first things that’s taught to people who are new to the language. While the following snippet might be frowned upon by many, it’s definitely not uncommon: # src.py with open("foo.csv", "r") as f: # Load the whole content of the file as a string in memory and return it....