Why Your Caching Strategy Probably Has the Same 4 Holes

Book: System Design Pocket Guide: Fundamentals Also by me: Database Playbook My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub A team I talked to last quarter had a Tuesday outage that lasted eight minutes. The storefront looked fine until checkout, which started returning 503s. Database CPU sat at 98%. The cache was healthy. The cache was, in fact, the problem. A single product page (the one being pushed in an e