Crushing Tech Debt Through Automation at Coinbase

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Rob Witoff takes a deep dive into how Coinbase attacks tech debt, including deployments, testing, immutable + codified infrastructure. He shares a recent "Scorched Earth" event where they upgraded and rebuilt 100% of their infrastructure from scratch in 24 hours. Tech includes AWS, Docker, CoreOS, Terraform, GeoEngineer and more.

This presentation was recorded at QCon London 2017.

[kennyjiang]

There are limit to pay technical debt with automation. There is not substitute for good design and implementation. You can rebuild your app/site every second all you want. Case in point: coinbase crashed and burned while BTC downed from $11k to 9k and back to all time high $19k. All coinbase crushed was customers wallet in the tune of millions of dollars.

[TheBadFred]

Some things need to be improved after the Wednesday crash "ID Verification Outage", that caused the drop of Bitcoin.