Jul 4, 20228 minInfrastructureHow We Built a Cross-Region Caching Library At the Wix server infrastructure group we work daily on a set of tools that help make the lives of our backend developers easier, while...
Jun 21, 202230 minEngineering CultureWix Engineering Tech Interviews: Armon Dadgar, Matan Cohen and Ran SchneiderWe love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
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Feb 28, 202114 minEngineering CultureThe Race for Black Friday, E09: Full TranscriptEvery year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, traffic to online shopping sites spikes three, four, five times over. Websites built to...
Feb 15, 202110 minBazelToo Much Code for Bazel Monorepo? Try Going VirtualBazel is really optimized for monorepo. Yet, at Wix we are able to run it with source dependencies between 50 interdependent git...
Feb 8, 20215 minDatabaseScaling Bazel External Dependencies at WixPhoto by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash In the recent past at Wix Engineering we migrated our backend systems to the Bazel build system....
Jan 4, 20216 minScaling4 Steps for Kafka Rebalance - Notes From the FieldPhoto by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Apache Kafka is a popular distributed event streaming platform used for data pipelines, streaming...