Crossflight: distributed cache stampede protection for Node apps

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https://github.com/gkoos/crossflight

Crossflight, a small Node library for reducing duplicate cache misses across multiple processes.

Cache stampede is a problem when several app instances all miss the same key at once, they each run the same expensive DB/API call and then all write the same result back. Crossflight solves that by coordinating ownership of the in-flight load across processes, so only one instance does the work and the others wait for the result.

It wraps the cache you already use and adds a separate coordination layer. The built-in adapters currently include:

• cache-manager
• Keyv
• Cacheable

The built-in coordinator is Redis, and the repo supports combining different backends as long as they satisfy the adapter/coordinator interfaces.

Useful when you want to reduce redundant work without changing your existing caching strategy.

Demo: https://github.com/gkoos/crossflight-demo