Matteo Collina @nodeland.dev · Jul 6

🔥 NEW BANTER: "Your Node.js Gateway Is Doing Twice the Work" You launch. Thousands hit the same link at once. The cache is cold. And your app builds the exact same response hundreds of times in parallel. Luca and I sit down with Paolo Insogna to make it stop. 📅 July 8th

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Matteo Collina · Jul 6

This is the thundering herd. Cache expires. A hundred requests miss at the same moment. Every one of them starts generating the same response, hitting the same database, burning the same CPU. The cache was supposed to protect you. Right when you need it most, it's empty.