On PHP and cache slams and solutions
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While reading about Doctrine's cache mechanism (which applies to other stuff than database queries, by the way), my eye was caught by a little message at the end (last section) about cache slams.
I have used cache mechanisms extensively over the last few years, but (maybe luckily) never happened to witness a "cache slam".
There's a link to a blog (by an unnamed author) that explains that.
To make it short, you can have race conditions in APC (and