[Incident Management + AWS KMS + Let's Encrypt] Women in Infra at Coinbase

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~Agenda~

6:00pm: Welcome to Women In Infra at Coinbase.
Grab a snack and a drink and meet your fellow engineers.

6:45pm: Tech Talks

Talk #1: Incident management by Amy Li & Lalita Maraj
Amy Li: is a Site Reliability Engineer involved in all aspects of incident management at Coinbase.

Lalita Maraj: is an Infrastructure Engineer at Coinbase. Infrastructure Engineering appeals to Lalita because she can merge her interest in software development with system design. Today, Lalita is enjoying learning more about cryptocurrencies and the different opportunities within the space.

Incident management
Coinbase strives to be the most trusted digital currency exchange which means reliability and security are top priorities for us. This doesn’t mean we are incident free. As the cryptocurrency space evolves, Coinbase inevitably faces new engineering challenges. Rather than burying engineers under unclear and tedious incident management procedures, we are focused on building automated systems to seamlessly guide our engineers through the incident management process.

Today, Coinbase makes incident management the least stressful part of an incident. This talk walks through how the Infrastructure team uses API Gateway and Lambdas to build Misato, our Incident Bot that helps to coordinate, monitor, and improve incident response in our organization. We explore how we made the incident process as user friendly as possible - all the way from creating an incident to reviewing a post mortem document.

Talk #2: AWS Key Management Service by Frances Chong
Frances Chong: is a Site Reliability Engineer working at Coinbase. She is passionate about working on things that will enhance people’s lives. On her spare time, she loves to find good food and being surrounded by nature.

AWS Key Management Service
Dealing with secrets is something best left for the experts to do, so I’ll be talking about how we use AWS’s Key Management System to help us manage our secrets. KMS seems to work like magic, everything is abstracted away, but today I’ll talk a little about the details behind it.

Talk #3: Let's learn how Let's Encrypt works by Aarti Parikh
Aarti Parikh: is Senior Infrastructure Engineer currently working in TLS, AWS and PKI in the Cloud team at Coinbase. She is experienced in building teams and products for the Internet, IoT and now Fintech/Crypto. She loves exploring new technologies and learning how/if they can improve the world especially the lives of women.

Let's learn how Let's Encrypt works
The objective of Let’s Encrypt and the ACME protocol is to make it possible to set up an HTTPS server and have it automatically obtain a browser-trusted certificate, without any human intervention. This is accomplished by running a certificate management agent on the web server. To understand how the technology works, let’s walk through the process of setting up an example with a certificate management agent that supports Let’s Encrypt.