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Your Redis cluster has plenty of overall capacity, but one specific key is overloading a single shard. How do you fix this?

Tests whether you know a hot key can bottleneck a cluster regardless of total capacity, and how local caching or key splitting helps.

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Your Redis cluster has plenty of overall capacity, but one specific key is overloading a single shard. How do you fix this?

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