The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices
The Pragmatic Engineer
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Rather than failing with an error, this encountered an existing bug in the DEC Unix “copy” (cp) command, where cp simply overwrote the source file with a zero-byte file. After this zero-byte file was deployed to prod, the Apache web server processes slowly picked up the empty configuration file.
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