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Every year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, traffic to online shopping sites spikes three, four, five times over. Websites built to...

Bazel is really optimized for monorepo. Yet, at Wix we are able to run it with source dependencies between 50 interdependent git...

Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash In the recent past at Wix Engineering we migrated our backend systems to the Bazel build system....

Yes, onboarding during a pandemic is (very) difficult. Hiring great people, making them feel welcome and integrating them into an...

Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash When we talk about the cost of the Cloud, storage is not the first component that comes to mind....

Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Apache Kafka is a popular distributed event streaming platform used for data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. After working with Kafka for a while, I encountered an issue of having to add new capacity and balance it several times after that. This issue can be amplified in high-scale environments, with lots of Brokers, Topics, and throughput, so it wasn’t a big surprise for me to encounter i

Three months ago we sat down with leaders of some of the most prominent tech companies to discuss the biggest challenges facing our...

Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash Intro Recently I went looking for ways to code web components and found this great post - “All the...

TL;DR: We successfully transformed a traditionally offline Goodness Squad event (a meetup focused on contributing to open source...

Photo by fabio on Unsplash As a developer at Wix, microservices are my natural habitat. I truly appreciate the advantages that come with...

For years mobile development teams split their talent between Android and iOS in a way that was costly, slow, and inefficient. Then, in...

Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash My latest two blog posts were about implementing a small, lightweight iteration library in JavaScript....

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash Push notifications are a great way to communicate with users and increase engagement. So much so that...

The global pandemic tore through every country on Earth and the world was devolving into panic. That’s when Yoav Abrahami received one of...

Over the past 5 years the Wix backend services group has been increasingly utilizing and reliant upon Apache Kafka for inter-service...

Intro Introducing Repluggable - our new library that implements inversion of control for front end applications, and makes development of...

There's a blazingly fast web framework out there, one that's easy to learn and battle-tested in real world applications. And no, we’re...

A major part of our engineering culture is about being active in the global developer community and sharing our best technical expertise....

Photo by Shiro hatori on Unsplash When you need to store millions of databases with multiple collections efficiently, what do you do?...

- I am running around 60 microservices and managing them is getting difficult, any advice? - Oh, it’s quite simple. Delete your...