Explore adding a new cache layer for onboarding

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520090-try-redis into master

What does this MR do and why?

Explore adding a new cache layer for onboarding

  • help track down possible data freshness issues at the database layer. For that we'll use redis for one spot and see what results we get and then go from there. We think the database should be using a caught up replica, but that doesn't seem to work all the time or something else is happening there. This will help us figure that out.
  • see specifics in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/520090#note_2465641423

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