MyCater fixes missing SQL order clause costing €3,500 in annual API fees
Tactic · Dev.to · stat: €3.5K MyCater resolves a silent caching bug that inflated its Google Maps API bill to €3,500 annually. The B2B catering marketplace generated inconsistent Redis cache keys for…
Tactic · Dev.to · stat: €3.5K
MyCater resolves a silent caching bug that inflated its Google Maps API bill to €3,500 annually. The B2B catering marketplace generated inconsistent Redis cache keys for identical requests because database queries lacked an explicit sort order. The company stops the redundant external API calls by deploying a single-line SQL query fix.
Unordered database queries are a silent, expensive tax on API caching. Failing to enforce strict sorting on database queries used for cache keys can silently inflate external API bills.
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