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...After having it around for a year, we noticed that the cache suffered from severe contention. A commit to remove that cache caused our query latency to dramatically improve by 5-10x. In essence, our cache was slowing us down! We concluded that the concurrent cache story in Go is broken and must be fixed. In March, we wrote about the State of Caching in Go, mentioning the problem of databases and systems requiring a smart memory-bound cache which can scale to the multi-threaded environment Go programs find themselves in.