Wix Backend Talks:
Parental Leave Edition*

Wix Engineering Meetup

Sunday, September 29th, 10:00

Wix Campus, Tel Aviv

*Baby-friendly environment

About our meetups

Wix Engineering's meetups center around technical insights, spanning front-end, back-end, mobile, testing, and everything in between. This time, we delve deeper into the domain of Platform Engineering and its vast potential.

Join us as we explore insights gathered from Wix Engineering's extensive experimentation and experience with AI and software development.

Agenda

10:00 - 10:30

Gathering: Coffee & Snacks

10:30 - 10:45

Aviva Peisach
Head of Backend Guild, Wix

Welcome and Opening

We’ll kick off the meetup with a warm welcome from the Aviva Peisach, Head of Backend Guild. We will introduce the agenda for the event and highlight the key objectives. You’ll hear from Aviva about Wix Backend Guild culture and insight into what you can expect from each session.

10:45 - 11:15

Or Rozenzweig
Backend Developer, Wix

How To Monitor Your Business, And Not Just Your Pods

Imagine this: Dozens of user complaints flood in, and suddenly business KPIs are dropping. Despite good latency and low error rates visible on your monitoring dashboard, the root cause eludes you. After hours of investigation, you discover a critical bug in a key business flow causing significant revenue losses for users. Frustrated, you question why no alert was triggered. The issue lies in your monitoring methodology.

In this session, we’ll shift from traditional metrics to a business-driven monitoring approach, focusing on key business flows and KPIs. Discover how aligning technical performance with business value can transform your monitoring strategy.

Using Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus, I’ll guide you through setting up your first business-driven dashboard. Learn to monitor crucial business flows with custom metrics, labels, and advanced log queries, building meaningful graphs and funnels.

I’ll do a live demo for building a comprehensive monitoring dashboard for Wix Delivery system, showcasing the impact of this approach.

Join me to unlock the potential of your monitoring strategy and elevate your role from developer to product owner.

11:15 - 11:45

Naama Antebi
Backend Developer, Wix

Workshop: Build Your Own Slack Bot

Eager to bring your very own Slack bot to life?
Join my workshop at Wix, where I'll guide you how to create your own Slack bot from scratch!

We’ll start with giving you a solid understanding of how Slack bots work.
I’ll show you some of the most useful bots we have at Wix.
After that, you'll dive into the code with hands-on exercises to start building your bot step by step.

Creating a Slack bot is not just about coding—it's about solving problems, making our work easier, and having a little fun.

You’ll walk away with a fully functioning bot that you can customize for your own needs!

11:45 - 12:00

Break

12:00 - 12:30

Gal Sharir
Backend Guild Manager, Wix

From IC to Manager and Back

Many view technical growth as this critical intersection with a right or left turn, where you either climb the managerial ladder or sharpen your technical skills.
In this presentation, I will explore more diverse pathways and perspectives on navigating technical growth, drawing from my own unique journey of transitioning between technical and management roles.