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Cache stampede

The Cache restarted empty. Every miss went to the database at once.

What happens#

The Cache restarted empty. Every miss went to the database at once.

How to prevent it#

Stampede protection coalesces misses. Cache warming refills it before traffic.

The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:

  1. Stampede protection
  2. Cache warming

Engineering terms#