Developer fixes V8 memory leaks and Redis cache stampedes in Next.js e-commerce API

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A developer building a personal high-throughput e-commerce API with Next.js SSR and Redis encountered severe instability as simulated flash-sale traffic scaled up. The system suffered recurring out-of-memory crashes and HTTP 502 errors caused by two interlinked bugs: a V8 garbage collection failure from storing large request objects in a global array, and a Redis cache stampede that flooded PostgreSQL whenever a cache entry expired. The memory leak was resolved by removing module-level state and decoupling the request object from the metrics closure entirely. The stampede was addressed using a probabilistic early-expiration algorithm called XFetch, which volunteers a single background request to refresh the cache before expiry rather than allowing thousands of simultaneous database hits. Together, the fixes eliminated the cascading failure without requiring expensive distributed mutex locks.

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