Presentation: How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud (opens in new tab)

Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction. By Frank Yu