cache stampede
A cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching…A cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching mechanisms come under very high load, leading to multiple threads of execution attempting to perform the same operation simultaneously.
Meaning
1 sensesA cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching mechanisms come under very high load, leading to multiple threads of execution attempting to perform the same operation simultaneously.
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