diff --git a/examples/cloud/failureToMatch.php b/examples/cloud/failureToMatch.php
index f8642bb..163f34d 100644
--- a/examples/cloud/failureToMatch.php
+++ b/examples/cloud/failureToMatch.php
@@ -87,18 +87,14 @@
 // Next we build the pipeline. We could additionally add extra engines and/or
 // flowElements here before building.
 
-// To stop having to construct the pipeline
-// and re-make cloud API requests used during construction on every page load,
-// we recommend caching the serialized pipeline to a database or disk.
-// Below we are using PHP's serialize and writing to a file if it doesn't exist
-
-$serializedPipelineFile = __DIR__ . "failure_to_match_pipeline.pipeline";
-if(!file_exists($serializedPipelineFile)){
-    $pipeline = $builder->build();
-    file_put_contents($serializedPipelineFile, serialize($pipeline));
-} else {
-    $pipeline = unserialize(file_get_contents($serializedPipelineFile));
-}
+// A site keeps the pipeline for the life of the process, or serializes it,
+// so that the cloud requests made while it is built are not made on every
+// page load. Anything kept that way has to be thrown away when the resource
+// key changes, because a pipeline carries the properties of the key it was
+// built with. This example builds it on every run, so the answer always
+// belongs to the key the example was given.
+
+$pipeline = $builder->build();
 
 // Here we create a function that checks if a supplied User-Agent is a
 // mobile device
diff --git a/tests/ExampleTests.php b/tests/ExampleTests.php
index bc4e577..8f91de1 100644
--- a/tests/ExampleTests.php
+++ b/tests/ExampleTests.php
@@ -174,6 +174,89 @@ static function ($line) { return strpos($line, "\t") === 0; }
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The failure to match example is a script rather than a class, so it
+     * is run as its own process.
+     *
+     * It used to keep the pipeline it built in a file beside the examples
+     * and reuse it on the next run, so a run with one resource key answered
+     * with the properties of whichever key had run first. The file name was
+     * also built without a separator, so it landed outside the folder the
+     * example lives in. The example builds its pipeline on every run now,
+     * and this checks that it answers and leaves nothing behind.
+     */
+    public function testFailureToMatchLeavesNoPipelineBehind()
+    {
+        $key = $this->getResourceKey();
+        $examples = __DIR__ . '/../examples';
+
+        foreach ($this->pipelineFilesUnder($examples) as $stale) {
+            unlink($stale);
+        }
+
+        $output = $this->runScript(
+            $examples . '/cloud/failureToMatch.php',
+            $key
+        );
+
+        $this->assertStringContainsString(
+            'represent a mobile device',
+            $output
+        );
+
+        $this->assertSame(
+            [],
+            $this->pipelineFilesUnder($examples),
+            'The example left a serialized pipeline behind, and the next run '
+            . 'would answer from whatever resource key wrote it'
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs a PHP script with the resource key in its environment and
+     * returns everything it wrote.
+     */
+    private function runScript(string $script, string $key): string
+    {
+        $environment = getenv();
+        $environment[Constants::RESOURCE_ENV_VAR] = $key;
+
+        $process = proc_open(
+            [PHP_BINARY, $script],
+            [1 => ['pipe', 'w'], 2 => ['pipe', 'w']],
+            $pipes,
+            null,
+            $environment
+        );
+        $this->assertIsResource($process, 'Could not start ' . $script);
+
+        $output = stream_get_contents($pipes[1])
+            . stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);
+        fclose($pipes[1]);
+        fclose($pipes[2]);
+        proc_close($process);
+
+        return $output;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Every serialized pipeline file in the examples folder, in the folders
+     * below it, and beside it, because a name built without a separator
+     * lands beside the folder rather than in it.
+     *
+     * @return string[]
+     */
+    private function pipelineFilesUnder(string $folder): array
+    {
+        $found = array_merge(
+            (array) glob($folder . '/*.pipeline'),
+            (array) glob($folder . '/*/*.pipeline'),
+            (array) glob(dirname($folder) . '/*.pipeline')
+        );
+
+        return array_values(array_filter($found, 'is_file'));
+    }
+
     private function getResourceKey()
     {
         $resourceKey = ResourceKeys::find(Constants::RESOURCE_ENV_VAR);