Cache Expired During Demo

TECHNICAL PARABLE Cache Expired During Demo

Junior Developer Young adult sincere developer discovering production reality; helper/audience surrogate. "The demo is loading slower than rehearsal."

Cache Guy Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer. "That is because rehearsal was from yesterday’s memory."

Junior Developer Young adult sincere developer discovering production reality; helper/audience surrogate. "So the feature was fast in the past?"

Tiny CTO Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer. "Many systems are excellent historians."

The chaos was predictable.

TINY CTO LESSON Performance based on stale cached state is not performance, it is borrowed confidence. Read Full Technical Parable →