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Fearless Responsible Development: How to Move Quickly without Compromising on Quality
This is the story of the culture, methods and tools, allowing the development of features in high-traffic super-sensitive components in a...
May 11, 20227 min read
Wix Engineering: Book a Session With Us
Yes, we love telling the stories behind the challenges we face daily and how we solve them. We do it with our blog, newsletter, podcast,...
May 2, 20221 min read
Fight Open Source with Open Source
In this article we explain how creating an open-source project helped us make sure that an internal library we developed at Wix and...
Apr 26, 20225 min read
What I Learned From Wix Journey Towards the API First Paradigm
What is the “API-first” approach anyway? It means that you start with writing the API first. Simple, right? Now, seriously… This photo by...
Apr 24, 20225 min read
How We Migrated to a New CI System with Zero Downtime
Comment: This article is the 3rd part in a series of articles. You can find the previous posts in this series here: 6 Challenges We Faced...
Mar 29, 20226 min read
Looking Back at 2021 - Wix Engineering
We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2021, we shared our experience and insights on...
Mar 14, 202214 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Gwen Shapira and Natan Silnitsky
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Feb 28, 202224 min read
Wix Engineering Stats & Facts 2021
3.85Bn HTTP requests a day 50,000 builds a week 66Bn daily Kafka messages, and so much more... We picked up a couple of interesting stats...
Feb 20, 20221 min read
Why You Might Need a Design System, E18: Full Transcript
Over 600 changes are being pushed daily to Wix's codebase. How can we make sure that Wix still feels like Wix while maintaining our...
Feb 16, 202210 min read
Auto Scaling CI Agents At Wix
Comment: This article is the 2nd part in a series of articles. This is the 1st part - 6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI...
Feb 10, 20225 min read
Reducing Cross - Team Production Incidents by Using Testkits
Introduction About a year ago I started working at Wix, where a big part of our daily tasks is cross-team integrations. Various teams at...
Jan 19, 20224 min read
5 Challenges to Address When Moving to a Read Optimized View in Production
Creating read-optimized views is essential for scaling systems. However, transitioning to a stable, denormalized view without causing...
Jan 10, 202210 min read
Building a Resilient Infrastructure to Overcome Outages at Scale: Introducing Reactive Production
Your entire house relies on electricity in one way or another. Let’s face it - without it, things pretty much just stop. And it is not an...
Dec 16, 20216 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Zack Jackson and Dean Shub
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Dec 13, 202116 min read
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...
Dec 6, 20216 min read
FinOps to The Rescue: When Costs, Engineering and Cloud Clash, E17: Full Transcript
Every company, and everyone, uses the cloud. We use it because it’s easy, fast and cost effective. But, a lot of the time, we use it in a...
Nov 28, 202113 min read
Graceful Worker Termination: How NOT To Do It
Photo by Lawrence Walters on Unsplash HTTP status 502. After that everything continues to work. Then another 1 or 2 HTTP status 502… This...
Nov 15, 20214 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Greg Bergé & Gil Eckstein
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Nov 4, 202112 min read
Should You Build Using Internal Open Source?, E16: Full Transcript
When we needed a company-wide toolkit, the front-end infrastructure team decided to build it openly, letting developers around the...
Oct 31, 202110 min read
6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI Pipeline: Part I
Comment: This article is the 1st part in a series of articles. You can find the next posts in this series here: Auto Scaling CI Agents At...
Oct 24, 202112 min read
Dipping Your Toes in the Functional Programming Sea
My journey with functional programming started not too long ago. As I was completing my onboarding process at Wix I was recommended a JS...
Oct 21, 20215 min read
8 Tips for Converting That Big Project to TypeScript
TypeScript has many benefits for teams when it comes to writing neat, comprehensible, and reusable code. It’s no surprise that more than...
Oct 11, 20218 min read
The Art of Data Science, E15: Full Transcript
All data science projects are composed of the algorithm (model) and the data. While data scientists are natively focused on math and...
Sep 30, 202111 min read
The Reactive Monolith - How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing
Photo by Alex Wong on Unsplash We all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves...
Sep 29, 20217 min read
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