Re:Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent
by pavlov on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:52AM
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At the height of the boom last year, Coinbase was signing up 50,000 new customers every day. Scaling would be a problem for any web app at that level of growth.
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Re:Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent
by contingencies on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:36PM
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Why? What is a signup? A couple of simple database writes (100k/day = non-issue for one server) and a bit of static content delivery (offload to CDN so zero impact), maybe an email (can use third party) or an SMS (again), accepting a file upload (mostly bandwidth issue, use cloud). It's not rocket science.