Cache-Driven Development: Saving Your Database From Itself

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There is a moment in every backend engineer’s life when their database starts refusing connections. Picture 2 a.m. on a Tuesday. The app is operating under normal traffic, nothing unusual. But the database connection pool is saturated. Queries are timing out. The monitoring dashboard shows 50,000 database operations per second, far beyond what the system should be handling. When someone…

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