How to successfully migrate a critical microservice into monorepo Payment services in Bazel monorepo was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by…
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Scaling connections with Ruby and MongoDB
By Michael de Hoog Coinbase was launched 8 years ago as a Ruby on Rails app using MongoDB as its primary data store. Today, the primary paved-road language at Coinbase…
Container technologies at Coinbase
Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack By Drew Rothstein, Director of Engineering TLDR: Container orchestration platforms are complex and amazing technologies, helping some businesses and teams solve a…
Onboarding thousands of users with React Native
A retrospective for companies considering React Native Source: engineering.fb.com By Ian Ownbey, Nick Cherry, and Jacob Thornton In mid-2019, we committed to rewriting Coinbase’s core mobile sign-up with React Native. This…
Reliable fee-less Bitcoin transactions in Custody with Child-Pays-for-Parent
By Andrei Anisimov, Engineering Manager, Coinbase Custody Being an engineer at Coinbase Custody means solving challenging problems at the intersection of security, reliability, and user experience. Coinbase’s security-first culture mandates…
What are Coinbase’s Engineering Principles?
Over the last 3 years, the Coinbase engineering team has nearly tripled in size: from tens of engineers in the early 2016 to hundreds of engineers. At the same…
On becoming a senior technical leader
On becoming a senior technical leader How one Coinbase engineer grew from a senior engineer to an organizational leader Jesse PollakBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Apr 1 At Coinbase, we deeply believe in…
November 29th-December 1st Post Mortem – The Coinbase Blog
November 29th-December 1st Post Mortem Over the past year, Coinbase has invested significant effort to improve the scalability of our systems during periods of peak traffic. Despite these efforts, Coinbase…
December 6th-7th Post Mortem – The Coinbase Blog
December 6th-7th Post Mortem Over the past week, Coinbase has continued to invest significant resources into scaling our backend systems to provide a reliable customer experience during periods of high…
A Week of Crypto in San Francisco – The Coinbase Blog
A Week of Crypto in San Francisco It was a busy week across San Francisco last week as developers and industry participants from around the world came together for…