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How I handle kill switches is to first make sure that all code related to catching is just that. If it gets tied anywhere into the data saving logic or even worse, the actual business logic, you are screwed. I tend to manage this by keeping caching as part of a strategy pattern so I can enable or disable stuff using config parameters when starting the app. End to end testing with casper/selenium always runs with cache turned off unless I specifically want to test cache which I actually never have now that I think about it.