Any Coinbase employees here? Was wondering what the tech stack is, saw a job description mentioning breaking a Rails monolith into micro services - does that mean Coinbase switches to a different stack?
The main app powering coinbase.com, the “monorail”, is a Rails app backed by MongoDB. It’s typically what’s being referred to when breaking out microservices.
Historically most other services were Rails/Sinatra with Postgres. These days there’s a lot more Golang being used for new services.
There’s also some services that are serverless, using Lambda and DynamoDB but these are a minority.
Historically most other services were Rails/Sinatra with Postgres. These days there’s a lot more Golang being used for new services.
There’s also some services that are serverless, using Lambda and DynamoDB but these are a minority.