Caching Turned My API Integration into a Silent Failure Machine – And the Gruesome Fix
Picture this: your app's humming in staging, but production starts eating events alive. Silent caching strikes again, serving ghost 200s while your business bleeds.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Production caching on POSTs creates fake 200 OKs, starving your business logic.
- Fix with Cache-Control: no-store and per-event unique idempotency keys.
- Audit entire pipeline; edge computing will make this epidemic.
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