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web3 on the platform of your choice — a closer look at Coinbase Wallet’s multi-platform approach
web3 on the platform of your choice — a closer look at Coinbase Wallet’s multi-platform approach
Tl;dr: The replatforming of Coinbase Wallet’s mobile app reflects our commitment to improving access to web3. In this blog, we discuss why…
Coinbase
Jun 24, 2022
Embracing Decentralization: Integrating and Building Protocols at Coinbase
Embracing Decentralization: Integrating and Building Protocols at Coinbase
By Jesse Pollak, Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase
Coinbase
May 17, 2022
Rearchitecting apps for scale
Rearchitecting apps for scale
How Coinbase is using Relay and GraphQL to enable hypergrowth
Coinbase
May 6, 2022
Quantitative Crypto Insight: an analysis of triangular arbitrage transactions in Uniswap v2
Quantitative Crypto Insight: an analysis of triangular arbitrage transactions in Uniswap v2
By Indra Rustandi, Nabil Benbada, Yao Ma
Coinbase
Feb 8, 2022
Celer Bridge incident analysis
Celer Bridge incident analysis
Tl;dr: In this piece we share critical lessons about the nature of the Celer Bridge compromise, attacker on-chain and off-chain techniques…
Coinbase
Sep 9, 2022
Real-time reconciliation with Overseer
Real-time reconciliation with Overseer
Tl;dr: A common challenge with distributed systems is how to ensure that state remains synchronized across systems. At Coinbase, this is an…
Coinbase
Sep 6, 2022
Building a Python ecosystem for efficient and reliable development
Building a Python ecosystem for efficient and reliable development
Tl;dr: This blog post describes how we developed an efficient, reliable Python ecosystem using Pants, an open source build system, and…
Coinbase
Sep 1, 2022
Data semantics: the missing layer of your data warehouse
Data semantics: the missing layer of your data warehouse
By Dan Frank
Coinbase
Aug 19, 2020
How Coinbase handled ETH network congestion on August 1, 2020
How Coinbase handled ETH network congestion on August 1, 2020
On August 1st, the Ethereum network experienced spikes in transaction fees which led to delayed deposits/withdrawals for some Coinbase…
Coinbase
Aug 2, 2020
Introduction to Building on DeFi with Ethereum and USDC — Part 1
Introduction to Building on DeFi with Ethereum and USDC — Part 1
By Pete Kim
Coinbase
Jul 17, 2020
Lessons from training teams to use React Native
Lessons from training teams to use React Native
By Harry Tormey
Coinbase
Sep 10, 2020
A deep dive into the recent BCH hard fork incident
A deep dive into the recent BCH hard fork incident
By Mark Nesbitt, Peter Kacherginsky, and Don Yu
Coinbase
May 30, 2019
Introducing Coinbase Watchdog: A new approach to UI and code-driven automation for Datadog
Introducing Coinbase Watchdog: A new approach to UI and code-driven automation for Datadog
Our engineers needed a better way to monitor changes in Datadog, so they built a new, open source codification bot called Coinbase…
Maksym Naboka
May 22, 2019
Exploring serverless technology by benchmarking AWS Lambda
Exploring serverless technology by benchmarking AWS Lambda
We benchmark AWS Lambda to validate our assumptions about serverless technology’s performance in the real world.
Luke Demi
Mar 28, 2019
Blockchain Infrastructure at Coinbase
Blockchain Infrastructure at Coinbase
Learn how we build and deploy reliable, ephemeral, blockchain-agnostic infrastructure on AWS.
Jack Kearney
Jan 22, 2019
Logs, metrics, and the evolution of observability at Coinbase
Logs, metrics, and the evolution of observability at Coinbase
Learn how our observability philosophy and frameworks have evolved over the past year.
Luke Demi
Feb 11, 2019
AWS Step Functions, State Machines, Bifrost, and Building Deployers
AWS Step Functions, State Machines, Bifrost, and Building Deployers
An introduction to Step, Step functions, and how to build a deployer with Bifrost
Graham Jenson
Nov 20, 2018
OkHttp & OAuth: Token Refreshes
OkHttp & OAuth: Token Refreshes
Every time we log into an app using our Facebook or Google account, we rely on the authentication protocol OAuth.
Warren Smith
Dec 4, 2018
On becoming a senior technical leader
On becoming a senior technical leader
Hear how one Coinbase engineer grew from a senior engineer to an organizational leader.
Jesse Pollak
Apr 1, 2019
Reliability Engineering at Coinbase
Learn more about the work that our dedicated reliability engineering team is doing behind the scenes to keep our systems up and running.
Niall O'Higgins
Mar 21, 2019
Open Sourcing Our Distributed Toolbox
tl;dr: We published some cool gems written at Coinbase for locking and rate-limiting using Redis. Check them out!
Jim Posen
Feb 14, 2017
Introducing Salus: How Coinbase scales security automation
Introducing Salus: How Coinbase scales security automation
Today we’re open sourcing Salus, a tool we use to coordinate security scanning across all the services we deploy at Coinbase.
Julian Borrey
Oct 18, 2018
Understanding Web 3 — A User Controlled Internet
Understanding Web 3 — A User Controlled Internet
Coinbase breaks down the motivation and technology behind the development of Web 3
Emre Tekisalp
Aug 29, 2018
Scaling & Developer Productivity
Scaling & Developer Productivity
At Coinbase we care about developer productivity. As we’ve scaled from a single service to many, we’ve invested in tools that give us the…
Rob Witoff
Aug 22, 2016
Coinbase at Devcon4
Coinbase at Devcon4
We’re excited to be joining lots of other teams attending and presenting at Devcon! Here’s a sneak peek at where you’ll find us.
Emre Tekisalp
Oct 26, 2018
Coinbase at Violet Hacks
Coinbase at Violet Hacks
Read about the exciting projects that 200+ professionals worked on during Violet Hacks, a 2-day event for female & non-binary people.
Julia Chou
Aug 19, 2019
Why hackathons are an important part of Coinbase culture
Why hackathons are an important part of Coinbase culture
Ask any engineer who works in tech — hackathons are an important part of company culture. That’s certainly true for us at Coinbase.
Namrata Ganatra
Sep 6, 2018
Codifying Coinbase
Codifying Coinbase
The Infrastructure Team at Coinbase has the goal of enabling any engineer in the company to quickly and securely deploy complex…
Luke Demi
May 4, 2017
Coinbase at AWS re:Invent 2018
Coinbase at AWS re:Invent 2018
Join us at AWS re:invent to learn more about Coinbase’s site reliability, scaling our blockchain infrastructure, cryptocurrencies, and…
Tammie Kong-Santos
Nov 20, 2018
How Coinbase Builds Secure Infrastructure To Store Bitcoin In The Cloud
How Coinbase Builds Secure Infrastructure To Store Bitcoin In The Cloud
Or how to build paranoid infrastructure on top of AWS
Brian Armstrong
Apr 28, 2016
Coinbase Open Source Fund: May and June Update
Coinbase Open Source Fund: May and June Update
We're focusing this edition on the underlying architecture and OSS that's helped to make both Coinbase Pro and Prime possible.
Felix Böhm
Jun 29, 2018
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