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Comment by ur-whale | Hacker News Reader

Given Coinbase's reliability track record [1][2][3], I'm not entirely sure why I'd listen to devops "wisdom" coming from their corner.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/gh3b5t/coinbase_c...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6gtwyi/every_singl...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ggr80l/i_do...

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While this may not be stated in the most diplomatic way, it's important and relevant for this discussion and I don't think it should be downvoted. It's very well established that Coinbase's infrastructure is unable to handle traffic spikes, despite the fact that traffic spikes are a fact of life in their industry and downtime can easily cost their customers millions of dollars.

Huh, have they considered Kubernet... nevermind.

In seriousness, we find k8s makes handling our traffic spikes a doddle. As in, we don't have to do anything.

Of course, we didn't necessarily need K8s to accomplish that, but it's the tool we used, and the complexity cost is paying off for us.

They've worked to fix their trading system to address these 100X spikes in trading volume - it's less about _how_ they run their stuff and more about _what_ they were running...

They've having some growing pain. It's normal in a company growing at Coinbase's pace.

Wanted to mention the same. Though I kind of disagree with the conclusion. Though the have a lot of problems with the stability of their service, it also means they know what they want to solve with their current architecture. So we'll see

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