Capacity Planning
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Capacity Planning for Crypto Mania
Over the course of 2017, Coinbase experienced exponential user and trading volume growth, which in turn led to periods of website instability and downtime. During this period, we saw our systems perform at the very edge of their capacity which inspired important capacity and performance...
Jordan Sitkin
Software Engineer @coinbase
Luke Demi
Software Engineer @coinbase
Interviews
Jordan Sitkin
Software Engineer @coinbase
Luke Demi
Software Engineer @coinbase
Capacity Planning for Crypto Mania
What's the focus of the work that you do today?
Jordan: We’re on the Reliability Team at Coinbase. It was formed in response to the crazy spike of scaling challenges around 2017 with Cryptocurrency. The work is focused on traditional SRE topics of monitoring and instrumentation. We act as consultants for other mostly feature-focused teams. For example, we embed in teams to make...
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