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At Wix we produce gigabytes of logs for different applications every day. Logs are not the only way we monitor our systems, but they play...

Many people ask me for advice when they’re trying to modify some code locally without the changes finding their way into the remote...

As a front-end developer, you’ve probably heard about TypeScript. Maybe you even tried using it. But not many developers know what it is...

When Wix started developing the HTML editor, many of the people whose full time job was AS3 development suddenly had to start developing...

For quite awhile we have been maintaining an application that processes XML and JSON data. Usually the maintenance consists of fixing...

When I prepared the first presentation to tell the Wix scaling story, we had just over 10,000,000 (10M) registered Wix users. By the time...

This blog post is part 2 in the “Scaling Wix to over 100M Users” series. Read part 1 here. When Wix started, we used the Tomcat,...

It is not enough for code to simply work. Good code is meant to be easy to understand, and it is much easier to understand code that is...

In recent months we have seen a small but persistent percentage of our operations fail with a strange exception—...

A few months ago we noticed unusually high CPU usage in one of our services. At first we didn’t take it seriously, but when we got a...

Just wanted to share a nice piece of code I created.. During my recent experience with NodeJs, there was one thing that bugged me the...

So apparently, the latest Java update to OS X Snow Leopard broke Maven 2 support. It did so in a rather nasty way; For over a year now...

We at Wix.com started our journey on DevOps and Microservices about two years ago and recently switched from a monolithic application to...

On Saturday, at midnight Greenwich Mean Time, as June turned into July, the Earth’s official time keepers held their clocks back by a...

This blog post is a follow up to “How Many Threads Does It Take to Fill a Pool?”, written by Yoav Abrahami in June 2013. In Yoav’s post,...

Last week our very own Amit Kaufman (Editor Manager) and Avi Marcus (Editor Client Architect) appeared for a guest appearance on the...

I’ve recently started coding in Scala (recently being over a year ago). While I dislike Scala companion religion ‘everything functional’,...

Checkout EasyPattern for Javascript and NodeJs! During some work on our internal tool, I have created EasyPattern, which is a readable...

EmbeddedJettyProbe is a small tool for examining the contents of HttpRequests that arrive at an embedded Jetty instance. This is useful...

Let’s say you have a class A, which exposes an old fashion, not fluent api In languages like Java, you would be stack with using this...