R.I.P.
Stale cache after deploy
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“Showed you yesterday, every day.”
The grave is empty. It rose again.
Death certificate
- Status
- 🪦 Buried
- Cause of death
- CacheServed yesterday’s answer to today’s question, very quickly.
- Severity
- Medium
- Hours to kill
- 7 hours
- Killed by
- Jashanpreet
- Language
- TypeScript
- Born
- 14 Jan 2025
- Fix merged
- 17 Jan 2025
- Buried
- 28 Jan 2025
- Component
- deploy
- Symptoms
- After every deploy, pages kept showing yesterday's prices until the CDN cache expired.
- The fix
- Purged the CDN on deploy and versioned the asset URLs.
Timeline
Every life of this bug, oldest first.
Born as “Stale cache after deploy”14 Jan 2025
Fix merged17 Jan 2025
Buried28 Jan 2025
Rose again as “Stale cache after deploy (Zombie #1)”18 Aug 2026
Risen from this grave
It came back.