Several pieces of the site scaled up about 10x in the past month or two, and this exposed some lingering performance problems. Somebody told us an analogy one time of rebuilding a car while trying to drive it down the freeway at 60MPH. That is a good approximation of what we're doing right now - in short, we are doing so carefully and with the help of great test coverage to make sure nothing breaks along the way.
Thank you your bearing with us. I wish I could say this is the last time we'll experience scaling problems in the next year, but it seems unlikely with the growth of bitcoin right now. If this seems like something interesting to work on, we are also hiring: https://coinbase.com/jobs
We'll post updates to Twitter as we come closer to a resolution. Thank you!
Several pieces of the site scaled up about 10x in the past month or two, and this exposed some lingering performance problems. Somebody told us an analogy one time of rebuilding a car while trying to drive it down the freeway at 60MPH. That is a good approximation of what we're doing right now - in short, we are doing so carefully and with the help of great test coverage to make sure nothing breaks along the way.
Thank you your bearing with us. I wish I could say this is the last time we'll experience scaling problems in the next year, but it seems unlikely with the growth of bitcoin right now. If this seems like something interesting to work on, we are also hiring: https://coinbase.com/jobs
We'll post updates to Twitter as we come closer to a resolution. Thank you!