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• Benjamin Cane

  Practical notes on building fast, reliable software systems that scale. Posts are a mirror of my LinkedIn & Blog content.

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• AI makes code cheap to create, not cheap to own

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-08-19

• “We can’t run locally” is usually a design smell

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-08-14

• To make a service more stable, eliminate dependencies

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-08-07

• Caching isn’t hard. Some data is hard to cache

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-07-31

• The closer to the edge, the more stable a platform must be

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-07-24

• Sometimes the most resilient thing a system can do isn’t retry

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-07-17

• Should retries and timeouts live in your application or your service mesh?

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-07-10

• Need to migrate from one database to another without downtime?

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-07-03

• Glue Services: Part Two — Data Synchronization

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-06-26

• When modernizing legacy systems, don’t be afraid to build glue services

  Benjamin Cane · 2026-06-19

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