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Hibernate second-level cache with two app instances: why does instance B serve stale data?

Tests whether you know the second-level cache is local to each JVM by default -- instance A updating an entity invalidates only its own cache, leaving instance B's cached copy stale unless you configure a distributed/shared cache provider that propagates invalidation across instances.

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