We Added Redis to Make Things Faster. It Made Things Worse.
Caching cut our response times, then introduced stale data, cache stampedes, invalidation bugs, and a database that struggled when Redis disappeared.
Sep 26, 20269 min read1

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Caching cut our response times, then introduced stale data, cache stampedes, invalidation bugs, and a database that struggled when Redis disappeared.

A practical, code-first guide to cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-behind, and refresh-ahead caching, with Redis examples, eviction policies, and invalidation strategies.

A practical, code-first guide to cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-behind, and refresh-ahead caching, with Redis examples, eviction policies, and invalidation strategies.
