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Our System Crashed at 14:22: It Wasn't the Database

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Our System Crashed at 14:22: It Wasn't the Database TL;DR: During peak concurrent load, our 5-minute cache unexpectedly evicted keys early due to lock contention. The solution was migrating to asynchronous stale-while-revalidate with an in-memory semaphore. The diff took 18 lines and cut our p99 la…

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  1. 2026-09-14 02:59 · DEV Community — AI
    Our System Crashed at 14:22: It Wasn't the Database

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