@GergelyOrosz: The postmortem from Coinbase's 10-hour outage is out and... damn They run global trading from a single region because o…
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Coinbase's 10-hour outage postmortem reveals they run global trading from a single region without automated failover, raising concerns about their infrastructure reliability.
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The postmortem from Coinbase’s 10-hour outage is out and… damn
They run global trading from a single region because of latency. OK, I understand.
BUT they have no automated failover prepared!
Are they praying the region never goes down?? Doesn’t compute for me… https://t.co/54DtsArYlf
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