L2 cache invalidation traffic across multiple nodes can be costly, and can reduce the performance of all nodes. In this article, I describe a possible solution to reduce this invalidation traffic. — Introduction As Oracle says: “A second-level cache is a local store of entity data managed by the persistence provider to improve application performance. A second-level cache helps improve performance by avoiding expensive database calls, keeping the entity data local to the application. A second-level cache is typically transparent to the application…