Cache Stampede Prevention

When Your Cache Chokes: Taming the Cache Stampede Ever felt that exhilarating rush when your application is humming along, serving requests at lightning speed thanks to a well-tuned cache? It's a beautiful symphony of data retrieval. But then, the music stops. Suddenly, your database is drowning in a flood of identical requests, all trying to fetch the same piece of data that just expired. Your cache, once a superhero, is now a bottleneck, and your users are experiencing the dreaded "spinning wh