How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud

Abstract

These days it is possible to achieve fairly good performance on cloud provisioned systems. We discuss the design of a high performance, strongly consistent system which maintains constant service in the face of regular updates to core logic.


Speaker

Frank Yu

Director of Engineering @Coinbase, Previously Principal Engineer and Director @FairX

Frank is an engineering leader at Coinbase, focusing on distributed low latency trading platforms. Prior to Coinbase, he served as Principal Engineer and later Director of Software Engineering at FairX, leading the design and build of what would become the Coinbase Derivatives Exchange post acquisition. Frank has spent over a decade making tradeoffs on mission critical systems with submillisecond response times and loves chatting about complexity, testing, and performance.

 

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