The Cache Key Is Not a Prompt Output
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A checkout service mixed two tenants inside cached carts. The on-call thread blamed a rare cache race. The root cause was not a cache race. A helper asked a model to summarize each request. That summary then became the production cache key. Similar carts then produced nearly identical key phrases.…
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- 2026-09-20 10:56 · DEV Community — AI
The Cache Key Is Not a Prompt Output