>'ve talked to a backend developer at Coinbase, he said their codebase is a mess and that he wouldn't hold any in their system
I usually wouldn't jump in on hearsay or be negative in this way. But Coinbase apparently proudly uses MongoDB as their database. Which is just, like, bizarre.
But hey, I'm a rather satisfied customer. Although I'd be much more satisfied if they'd have let me buy earlier in 2013, instead of having an opaque systemwide cap system and not providing helpful responses.
Yeah, like I said, I haven't seen first hand, I'm just repeating what was told to me. And frustrated developers can sometimes call something "a mess" that is really just par for the course for financial apps.
But MongoDB? Man, we used that at 500px, and while it is fast for 99% of usage, I don't know if I'd trust it with financial data.
I usually wouldn't jump in on hearsay or be negative in this way. But Coinbase apparently proudly uses MongoDB as their database. Which is just, like, bizarre.
But hey, I'm a rather satisfied customer. Although I'd be much more satisfied if they'd have let me buy earlier in 2013, instead of having an opaque systemwide cap system and not providing helpful responses.