diff --git a/roles/badges-frontend/templates/tahrir.ini b/roles/badges-frontend/templates/tahrir.ini
index a0b2582ea7..e9e5fd03e0 100644
--- a/roles/badges-frontend/templates/tahrir.ini
+++ b/roles/badges-frontend/templates/tahrir.ini
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ tahrir.admin = ralph@fedoraproject.org, oddshocks@fedoraproject.org, puiterwijk@
 tahrir.pngs.uri = /usr/share/badges/pngs
 
 dogpile.cache.backend = dogpile.cache.memcached
-dogpile.cache.expiration_time = 10000
+dogpile.cache.expiration_time = 1
 dogpile.cache.arguments.url = memcached03:11211
 dogpile.cache.arguments.distributed_lock = True