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Benjamin Cane

Distinguished Engineer

Benjamin Cane is a Distinguished Engineer at American Express, where he plays a pivotal role driving the technical architecture and engineering excellence within the Global Merchant & Network Services Technology team. With a focus on payments, Ben specializes in building high performance, low latency distributed systems. His expertise has been instrumental in driving the evolution of American Express' cloud-native payments platform. Beyond his contributions to American Express, Ben is an active open-source community member and has contributed to various projects.

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Benjamin Cane

Distinguished Engineer

Choosing Go at American Express

A look into how American Express decided to use Go for some of its most critical applications.


Benjamin Cane

Distinguished Engineer

Do Not Run Dockerized Applications as Root

Understand how to run Dockerized applications as non-root and why it is important.


Benjamin Cane

Distinguished Engineer

Ditch Databases: Achieving Higher Availability Without Traditional Storage

For critical platforms, high availability is a top priority. Learn strategies for reducing complexity and thus increasing availability by eliminating or reducing database dependency.