Last night, Coinbase became aware of a security bug with CloudFlare, a service Coinbase uses for Denial of Service protection. This bug, now commonly known as CloudBleed, led to the leak of data from services that use CloudFlare in very specific and relatively rare circumstances. We…

tl;dr: We published some cool gems written at Coinbase for locking and rate-limiting using Redis. Check them out!

One of the technologies that powers many of our services at Coinbase is the blazing fast key-value data store, Redis. We…