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Jul 2, 2026 · Backend Development

Five Fatal Cache Pitfalls Explained with Five Diagrams

The article outlines five common cache design problems—penetration, concurrency, avalanche, hot‑data management, and business‑cache coupling—illustrates each with a diagram, and provides concrete Redis‑based solutions such as placeholder values, setNX locks, random TTLs, sorted‑set queues, and a Binlog‑Canal‑MQ pipeline.