Benjamin Cane — #Bengineering

Of all the software bugs I’ve seen, mishandling concurrency is one of the most common root causes.

At what point does better performance stop being worth it?

Sometimes good engineering looks like over-engineering.

AI has made code cheap to create, but more code means more overhead.

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

To make a service more stable, eliminate dependencies.

Caching isn’t hard.

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

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

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

Need to migrate from one database to another without downtime?

Glue Services: Part Two — Data Synchronization.

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

Coding agents can’t see your architecture diagrams—fix that.

Most teams put low-level architecture in the wrong place—if they document it at all.

Your coding agent is missing one thing: architectural context.

One of the easiest ways to break a gRPC service in production is health-checking the wrong listener.

Weighted load balancing has saved me more times than I can count.

YOLO is a terrible strategy for validating production changes.

Deterministic routing is one of the most effective ways distributed systems reduce consistency problems at scale.

When you think of microservices, you probably think of centralized shared services.

Are you using traffic mirroring in production?

Use Agent Skills to capture institutional knowledge and make it usable by coding agents.

Saved prompts are dead.

Generating code faster is only valuable if you can validate every change with confidence.