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Re:Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading by sksnskkcahan on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:25PM (#25204230)
It just depends how much capacity they provision. You could overprovision by 10000% like you suggest, or 50%. You can scale based on demand but it’s normal to have a lag.
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Re:Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading by lifty on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:33PM (#25204282)
Certain components cannot be scaled by just adding more machines. For example, scaling a matching engine is slightly more involved than that.
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Re:Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading by pushrax on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:43PM (#25204349)
Or a typical writable database. Resharding data may not be feasible at all during a high load event.
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