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AI-generatedConfiguring Mongoose population to avoid stale cache results
When using Mongoose’s .populate() method, the referenced document is fetched in a separate query after the parent document is retrieved. Because this two‑step process is not atomic, the populated data can represent a stale snapshot if the referenced document is modified between the two queries. The goal is to ensure that every populate operation returns the
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