# The same method on the auto-configured Caffeine manager cacheManager : org.springframework.cache.caffeine.CaffeineCacheManager The application started cleanly. Nothing warned about anything. buildAsync("q3") -> java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Caffeine AsyncCache available: set CaffeineCacheManager.setAsyncCacheMode(true) Thrown on the first invocation, in production, at whatever hour that endpoint first gets traffic.