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therein
21 days ago
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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
I should have known it was Coinbase. I know that Coinbase used to spend $35,000 a month to back up the data directory of ETH nodes.
xp84
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Of all the things Coinbase could spend money on, backups may be the smartest! Imagine if they lost a few billion dollars worth of crypto to a faulty SSD or something!
mrkramer
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>I know that Coinbase used to spend $35,000 a month to back up the data directory of ETH nodes.
They paid backups to whom? Who was vendor....I'm interested.
therein
20 days ago
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Amazon. They put it on an EBS volume and kept it around.
mrkramer
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Ah ok, I thought it was some startup.
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