Northbound AI Summit 2026

October 12 – 14, 2026 · Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

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Talk

Caching Strategies for LLM APIs

Tue, Oct 13 · 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT · Room A

The fastest and cheapest LLM call is the one you never make. But semantic caching — reusing an answer because the question is "close enough" — is a correctness gamble that has burned every team that treated it as a drop-in. This talk maps…

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Benjamin Liu

Principal Engineer · Cacheline AI

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Zero-downtime Migrations on D1

Wed, Oct 14 · 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT · Room A

SQLite at the edge changes what a migration even is: no maintenance window, no replica to fail over to, and a write path you share with live traffic. We have run 40+ schema migrations on D1 databases serving production requests, and this ta…

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Malik Thompson

Database Reliability Engineer · Edge Ledger