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Recap from Wix Engineering Conference 2023: Performance, Platform Engineering, AI, and Open Source
It was Dr. Seuss who said: "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go"....
Mar 10, 20248 min read
Looking Back at 2023 - Wix Engineering
We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2023, we shared our experience and insights on...
Feb 13, 20249 min read
How Wix Achieved Seamless MYSQL Schema Evolution: Navigating Complex Application Growth with Zero Downtime
As applications grow and evolve to be more and more complex, the schema also evolves to support new business logic. Updating a MYSQL...
Dec 21, 20235 min read
Special Interview with Scott Chacon: GitHub’s Co-Founder
This year, our keynote speaker for Wix Engineering Conference 2023 is none other than Scott Chacon , the CEO and Co-Founder of...
Sep 10, 20236 min read
Wix Engineering Conference 2023: Scott Chacon, Co-Founder of GitHub
We are excited to announce that Scott Chacon , Co-Founder of GitHub and GitButler, and author of ‘Pro Git’, will be joining us at the Wix...
Aug 28, 20231 min read
The Great Migration - How We Migrated All of Our Premium Subscriptions
Introduction At Wix, we recently took on the challenge of migrating all of our Premium Plan Subscriptions to a new system. This was an...
Jul 26, 202313 min read
Meet Gilad Barkan: An AI-Driven Interview with Wix’s Head of Data Science Guild
As a followup to our meetup “ AI @ Wix: A Cross Review of Data Science, Engineering and Generative AI at Wix ”, we sat with Gilad Barkan ...
Jul 5, 20238 min read
International Women in Engineering Day 2023
This June 23rd we mark the International Women in Engineering day. This year, we are excited to celebrate it by sharing the remarkable...
Jun 23, 202312 min read
Master the Art of Data Science Collaboration: 5 Steps for Initiating Projects that Impact Millions
Building models that impact millions of people is the greatest perk I am fortunate to have as part of the Data Science group at Wix....
Jun 8, 20238 min read
Wix Engineering Conference 2023: When Professional Growth and Engineering Culture Blends
As we look forward to our upcoming internal and annual conference, Wix Engineering Conference 2023, we are often asked by the community -...
May 23, 20233 min read
Vision, Plans, and Contribution: Interview with Yehonatan Daniv, W3C’s CSS Working Group Member
We sat down with Yehonatan Daniv for a short and insightful interview. Together, we explored his journey as a web developer and member of...
May 16, 20234 min read
API First, Microservices and Data Modeling: Wix Engineering TechTalk
In the fast-paced world of software development, it’s important to stop our daily coding processes (just for a while!), and take a...
May 10, 20231 min read
Platform Engineering @ Wix: Impacting the Future of Technology
Successful software businesses deliver high quality code fast. This goal, however, has become increasingly difficult to achieve. In...
May 7, 20232 min read
Velocity, Culture, Growth and Cost Saving: Behind the Scenes of Wix Server Guild
Wix Server Guild was established ten years ago and became the golden standard of how an “operational guild” should be. It was the first...
May 2, 20233 min read
Moving the Needle: 10 Lessons Learned from our FinOps Evolution
The pain point As we navigate through the winds of economic uncertainty, it's important to keep a watchful eye on our expenses....
Apr 19, 20238 min read
Disciplinary VS Multi-disciplinary Teams: Pros, Cons and Why We Believe One of Them is Better
Many managers struggle with how teams need to be structured. It's a hard decision to make. There are many articles out there on this...
Mar 15, 20236 min read
Wix Engineering's Stats Behind the Scenes, 2022
During 2022, Wix Engineering faced several technical challenges and achieved significant technological milestones. We handled 4.5 billion...
Feb 22, 20231 min read
A Sentry Testkit Journey: From Writing 5 Lines of Code to 240K Downloads / Month
Last month my Wix open-source library, sentry-teskit, broke a record. It went over 240K downloads per month for the first time! However,...
Feb 6, 20236 min read
Improving Our Security Posture with Ethical Hackers
This insightful interview with our security team was originally published on HackerOne in 2022. It covers how we leverage ethical hackers...
Jan 29, 20236 min read
Building Smart ETLs Using Iceberg Metadata
The challenge Business is dynamic and constantly changing. And so are the KPIs and logic that the business analytics are based on. For...
Jan 17, 20234 min read
Be The Best At What You Do: Learning, Growth and Communities, E19: Full Transcript
It took time for Kent C. Dodds to not just build a following, but to develop a voice - a unique professional perspective that people...
Jan 2, 202310 min read
Velocity@Scale: Pushing the Boundaries of Platform Engineering
Successful software businesses deliver high quality code fast. This goal, however, has become increasingly difficult to achieve. In...
Dec 18, 20222 min read
Mentorship is a Powerful Tool: Here Are The Lessons Learned from Being Mentors
We, at Wix Engineering, love telling the stories behind the challenges we face daily and how we solve them. We do it using our blog,...
Dec 14, 20224 min read
Threat and Vulnerability Hunting with Application Server Error Logs
Introduction When doing application security at scale, you have to make peace with the fact that some issues may as well find their way...
Nov 14, 20225 min read
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