Coinbase at AWS re:Invent 2019

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By Drew Rothstein

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The AWS re:Invent conference is coming to Las Vegas the week of December 2–6, and Coinbase is representing! Our incredible Product and Engineering team members will be speaking about site reliability, scaling our blockchain infrastructure, and teaching about cryptocurrencies. Come and join us!

AWS re:Invent is the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) learning conference in Las Vegas that attracts developers, system administrators, architects, and technical decision makers from all over the cloud computing world. Last year, they had an estimated attendance of 50,000 and succeeded in taking over most of the famous Las Vegas Strip. This year, re:Invent is anticipated to set new records, and the Coinbase team is proud to be contributing to the learning aspect of the conference.

Coinbase has a close-knit relationship with Amazon on a few levels. First, AWS powers almost all of Coinbase’s infrastructure, from storage, databases, analytics, you name it. Second, we regularly speak at the AWS Loft in San Francisco, and publish about technology that we use and open source that runs on AWS. Third, we are on a mission to build an open financial system for the world and with that, bring the utility of blockchain and digital currencies to the masses.

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As a company that has grown from 600 employees to over 800 this past year, we are committed to continuous development. Our engineers are excited about sharing stories from the trenches, our lessons learned, and talking shop about blockchain, crypto, and decentralized applications with fellow technologists who want to come along for the ride.

Coinbase is representing at the Nuvola Theater, Expo Hall at The Aria Resort and Casino. Come join us on Monday, Dec 2 at 4:40 PM — 5:00 PM. Photo: Courtesy of AWS.

Conference Events

If you are attending the conference, or watching from the comfort of your home or office over Twitch, please tune in for the following sessions by our talented colleagues:

  • Amy Li, a Site Reliability Engineer on our Reliability team and Lalita Maraj, a Software Engineer on our Cloud team will be presenting on how Coinbase handles incident management by leveraging AWS. Come learn how Coinbase made incident processing as user-friendly as possible — from creating an incident to reviewing a postmortem document. Wednesday, Dec 4, 12:15 PM — 1:15 PM, MGM, Level 2, Cedar Ballroom 254.
  • James Lu, a Software Engineer on our Consumer Product team and Goutham Buchi, an Engineering Manager on our Consumer Product team will be presenting on how Amazon Pinpoint is used as a core engagement service to delight our customers and grow our business. Wednesday, Dec 4, 10:45 AM — 11:45 AM, MGM, Level 3, Chairman’s Ballroom 368.
  • Graham Jenson, a Sr. Software Engineer on our Cloud team will be presenting on how to use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to develop serverless applications in a security-conscious organization. See how understanding features of AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you provide a secure way to take your serverless ideas to production. Monday, Dec 2, 4:40 PM — 5:00 PM, Aria, Level 1 West, Nuvola Theater — Expo Hall.

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