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Saravana Thiyagarajan · 2025-12-03T16:49:38.401Z

Introduction the unexpected challenge of Cache Invalidation Hi all, a few months ago, I was working on an internal analytics platform we built for our operations team. It wasn’t a flashy consumer product or a major internal tool, just a simple dashbo...

The cache invalidation based on the data source which that particular report uses.

E.g. : If the report is for sales with particular filter. There can be a new sales entry. Now we invalidate cache & the report query run once again cache it.

when will you increment the cache counter in the redis?

when every you setting a new value for that particular key which already cached. We increase the version counter. so cache miss would happen on next request which warm the cache up again.

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