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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by ajcodez on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:38PM (#15873902)
Build a financial exchange with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis. What could go wrong?

https://engineering.coinbase.com/november-29th-december-1st-...

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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by wilde on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:51PM (#15874056)
Stripe is on Ruby and Mongo and they seem to be doing OK.
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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by ajcodez on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:05PM (#15874219)
Good point.
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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by nikolay on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:41PM (#15875073)
Why do people still use a document database with no transactions for domains with a fairly slim and rarely changing schemas?
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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by j4ship on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:09PM (#15875240)
the expertise of their engineers leans that way .... why do we have many techs that can do the same thing? ... engineering is a social science
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