This should have been handled earlier. Has come to light in optimizing how pendingAliases are handled by the app.
Best way to handle pendingAliases with the database involves using caching...so, might as well just use caching to handle the pendingAliases...but good caching solutions (e.g. redis) need to be started and stopped appropriately by the app. This logic isn't in place yet even though it should be for the server and the db.
Add it in anticipation of adding caching.