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OpenRouter's February 2026 Outages: How a Cold Cache Overwhelmed the Database

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The database was struggling. The API said the user didn't exist. That is the part of OpenRouter's February outages worth looking at closely. The reported failure involved cache connectivity and the database lookups behind API-key authentication. When the cache stopped serving those lookups, the dat…

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  1. 2026-10-25 11:38 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenRouter's February 2026 Outages: How a Cold Cache Overwhelmed the Database

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