The Challenge At Wix, multiple applications share the same DB cluster. The reasons vary: consolidating apps from the same domain, grouping several small apps that don’t justify a dedicated cluster, or simply optimizing cost and operational overhead. However, this setup comes with a significant risk: every application on the cluster has the potential to impact all the others. One real example: we had a critical service related to user authentication sharing a DB cluster with s

Introduction At Wix Emails we are working towards building a world-class email marketing platform along with an intuitive, fast, and reliable automated emails system. We care deeply about the quality of our products and work hard towards building a system that the users can count on. Thus, when we saw a strange but occasional error some time ago it was not a question of whether users noticed it and whether we should wait until enough people complained. We needed to fix it im

In Part 1 ( read here ), we shared how we built the foundations for cost-efficiency at Wix’s data platform: creating visibility into...

In this post, we share the journey of optimizing the data platform at Wix, which led to a 50% reduction in monthly data platform costs ....