Wix Engineering Blog

Wix engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and our way of solving them. Read about architecture, scaling, mobile and web development.

Dec 6, 2021
6 min

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...

Jul 19, 2021
8 min

Wix Inbox Journey: 3 Approaches for Zero Downtime Database Migration

Before we begin: I’d like to first point out that it doesn’t really matter what the source and the destination databases are in the...

May 19, 2021
10 min

Wix’s Journey Into Data Streams

Photo by Mark Tuzman on Unsplash The quest of technological companies on the path of making their systems responsive, resilient, elastic,...

Apr 21, 2021
6 min

A Look Inside Payments by Wix

Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg on Unsplash Payments by Wix is not just a name for the platform within Wix.com that powers millions of...

Nov 24, 2020
7 min

Read Only Data Aggregation In a Microservices Environment: A Real Life Use Case

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

Oct 1, 2020
4 min

Building a High-level SDK for Kafka: Greyhound Unleashed

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

Aug 19, 2020
11 min

Out of Your Comfort Zone, E03: Full Transcript

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