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SoftwareOctober 19, 2026, 14:15

A cleanup job's KEYS cart:* paused Redis for two seconds and broke checkout

Through November, checkout failed in ~2-second bursts every ten minutes: a cleanup job ran KEYS cart:* over roughly 40 million keys, blocking single-threaded Redis for 1–2 seconds. The checkout client's 500 ms timeout meant every queued request failed at once.

A cleanup job's KEYS cart:* paused Redis for two seconds and broke checkout
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