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A crowd of small toy vans jammed together in an isometric courtyard in front of a single narrow gate

Cloud & Infrastructure/Resilience Patterns·Sep 27, 2026·7 min read

Cache Stampede: Why One Hot Key Can Sink Your DB

When a popular cache key expires, every waiting request hits your database at once. Here's why that happens and four real ways to stop it.

BackendCachingPerformance

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HTTP Caching in Practice: Cache-Control, ETags, and CDN Invalidation

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Web Development/Performance·May 16, 2026·9 min read

HTTP Caching: Cache-Control, ETags, and CDNs

Caching is high-leverage and consistently misunderstood. How Cache-Control and ETags actually work, why stale content happens, and how to design for it.

Web DevelopmentPerformanceHTTP

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Exact-match versus semantic LLM response caching compared side by side

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Cloud & Infrastructure/Performance·May 10, 2026·7 min read

Caching LLM Responses: When It Helps and Hurts

LLM calls are slow and expensive, so caching is the obvious fix. Here's when it backfires and how to implement exact-match and semantic caching.

LLMCachingPerformance

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