Cache Penetration, Cache Breakdown, and Cache Avalanche: Concepts and Mitigation Strategies
The article explains the concepts of cache penetration, cache breakdown, and cache avalanche in Redis‑based systems, describes the performance risks they pose to persistent databases, and presents practical mitigation techniques such as Bloom filters, empty‑object caching, hot‑key permanence, distributed locks, high‑availability clusters, rate limiting, and data pre‑warming.
