diff --git a/roles/badges/frontend/templates/tahrir.ini b/roles/badges/frontend/templates/tahrir.ini
index 6c764f4a91..c9b3dd261e 100644
--- a/roles/badges/frontend/templates/tahrir.ini
+++ b/roles/badges/frontend/templates/tahrir.ini
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ tahrir.admin = ralph@fedoraproject.org, puiterwijk@fedoraproject.org, nb@fedorap
 
 tahrir.pngs.uri = /usr/share/badges/pngs
 
-dogpile.cache.backend = dogpile.cache.memcached
+# disabled, trying to see if this fix this bug
+# https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8689
+dogpile.cache.backend = dogpile.cache.null
 dogpile.cache.expiration_time = 100
 dogpile.cache.arguments.url = memcached01:11211
 dogpile.cache.arguments.distributed_lock = True