# Someone Told Me ‘Just Add Cache’, Here’s What Actually Happened
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We’re running an application with multiple instances on Kubernetes, and like everyone else who has done horizontal scaling, we have Redis as a shared component.
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# What Is Database Pooling — and Why So Many People Get It Wrong
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This issue is rampant in Node.js, Go, and Python — basically anywhere you’re not using a meta-framework like Java Spring Boot or Python Django.