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

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Posted on Thu Apr 23 2026 | 2:59 pm

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.

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