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Fight Open Source with Open Source
In this article we explain how creating an open-source project helped us make sure that an internal library we developed at Wix and...

Wix Engineering
Apr 26, 20225 min read


What I Learned From Wix Journey Towards the API First Paradigm
What is the “API-first” approach anyway? It means that you start with writing the API first. Simple, right? Now, seriously… This photo by...

Wix Engineering
Apr 24, 20226 min read


How We Migrated to a New CI System with Zero Downtime
Comment: This article is the 3rd part in a series of articles. You can find the previous posts in this series here: 6 Challenges We Faced...

Wix Engineering
Mar 29, 20226 min read


Looking Back at 2021 - Wix Engineering
We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2021, we shared our experience and insights on...

Wix Engineering
Mar 14, 202214 min read


Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Gwen Shapira and Natan Silnitsky
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...

Wix Engineering
Feb 28, 202224 min read


Wix Engineering Stats & Facts 2021
3.85Bn HTTP requests a day 50,000 builds a week 66Bn daily Kafka messages, and so much more... We picked up a couple of interesting stats...

Wix Engineering
Feb 20, 20221 min read


Why You Might Need a Design System, E18: Full Transcript
Over 600 changes are being pushed daily to Wix's codebase. How can we make sure that Wix still feels like Wix while maintaining our...

Wix Engineering
Feb 16, 202211 min read


Auto Scaling CI Agents At Wix
Comment: This article is the 2nd part in a series of articles. This is the 1st part - 6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI...

Wix Engineering
Feb 10, 20225 min read


Reducing Cross - Team Production Incidents by Using Testkits
Introduction About a year ago I started working at Wix, where a big part of our daily tasks is cross-team integrations. Various teams at...

Wix Engineering
Jan 19, 20224 min read


5 Challenges to Address When Moving to a Read Optimized View in Production
Creating read-optimized views is essential for scaling systems. However, transitioning to a stable, denormalized view without causing...

Wix Engineering
Jan 10, 202210 min read


Building a Resilient Infrastructure to Overcome Outages at Scale: Introducing Reactive Production
Your entire house relies on electricity in one way or another. Let’s face it - without it, things pretty much just stop. And it is not an...

Wix Engineering
Dec 16, 20216 min read


Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Zack Jackson and Dean Shub
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...

Wix Engineering
Dec 13, 202116 min read


The Craft of Troubleshooting - From Art, to Science, to Automation
Those who read my previous post on postmortems know that resilience is a subject close to my heart. After all, at Wix we deal with...

Wix Engineering
Dec 6, 20216 min read


FinOps to The Rescue: When Costs, Engineering and Cloud Clash, E17: Full Transcript
Every company, and everyone, uses the cloud. We use it because it’s easy, fast and cost effective. But, a lot of the time, we use it in a...

Wix Engineering
Nov 28, 202113 min read


Graceful Worker Termination: How NOT To Do It
Photo by Lawrence Walters on Unsplash HTTP status 502. After that everything continues to work. Then another 1 or 2 HTTP status 502… This...

Wix Engineering
Nov 15, 20215 min read


Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Greg Bergé & Gil Eckstein
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...

Wix Engineering
Nov 4, 202112 min read


Should You Build Using Internal Open Source?, E16: Full Transcript
When we needed a company-wide toolkit, the front-end infrastructure team decided to build it openly, letting developers around the...

Wix Engineering
Oct 31, 202111 min read


6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI Pipeline: Part I
Comment: This article is the 1st part in a series of articles. You can find the next posts in this series here: Auto Scaling CI Agents At...

Wix Engineering
Oct 24, 202113 min read


Dipping Your Toes in the Functional Programming Sea
My journey with functional programming started not too long ago. As I was completing my onboarding process at Wix I was recommended a JS...

Matan Cohen
Oct 21, 20215 min read


8 Tips for Converting That Big Project to TypeScript
TypeScript has many benefits for teams when it comes to writing neat, comprehensible, and reusable code. It’s no surprise that more than...

Wix Engineering
Oct 11, 20218 min read
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