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Best Practices for Push Notifications in React Native
Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash Push notifications are a great way to communicate with users and increase engagement. So much so that...
Oct 22, 20205 min read
Crisis Mode - Building a Nationwide App During a Global Pandemic, E05: Full Transcript
The global pandemic tore through every country on Earth and the world was devolving into panic. That’s when Yoav Abrahami received one of...
Oct 20, 202013 min read
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...
Oct 1, 20204 min read
Introducing Repluggable - Solving The Dependency Model Challenge with Micro Frontends and Contracts
Intro Introducing Repluggable - our new library that implements inversion of control for front end applications, and makes development of...
Sep 29, 20204 min read
How Svelte Beats the Odds, E04: Full Transcript
There's a blazingly fast web framework out there, one that's easy to learn and battle-tested in real world applications. And no, we’re...
Sep 13, 202015 min read
Wix Engineering Updates & Picks
A major part of our engineering culture is about being active in the global developer community and sharing our best technical expertise....
Sep 7, 20203 min read
How We’re Able to Host 1 Million Sites per MongoDB Cluster
Photo by Shiro hatori on Unsplash When you need to store millions of databases with multiple collections efficiently, what do you do?...
Aug 25, 20204 min read
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...
Aug 19, 202011 min read
Continually Growing Your Engineering Skills While Scaling the Organization: Wix Engineering Culture
When you’re part of something extraordinary on a daily basis — you tend to forget how extraordinary it actually is… This is why I’ve...
Aug 17, 20206 min read
Growing Pains, E02: Full Transcript
Ittai Zeidman, our Backend Engineering Lead, was in the hospital with his wife and newborn, when he got an urgent call from the company’s...
Jul 26, 202018 min read
Meet Asaf Yonay, Head of FED Infrastructure at Wix Engineering
We sat down with Asaf Yonay, our Head of FED Infrastructure, to hear his take on FED infrastructure management, development velocity,...
Jul 21, 20203 min read
How (Not) To Add Deadlock To Your Critical Flow - 3 Simple Steps
Photo by Oleksandr Kurchev on Unsplash Intro In this post, I will describe how a library which I developed ended up causing a deadlock...
Jul 12, 20205 min read
Stand Up and Fight, E01P02: Full Transcript
A major part of our engineering culture is to take an active part in the global developers’ community by sharing the best of our...
Jun 25, 202015 min read
International Women in Engineering Day 2020
This June 23-d we mark the International Women in Engineering day, and this year we wanted to celebrate it by bringing you the stories of...
Jun 23, 20208 min read
How we Implemented Shared Element Transition in react-native-navigation
Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash Mobile devices are an essential part of our day. They are fast, compact and easy to use. However their...
Jun 14, 20204 min read
Building the Best Web Gallery, and Why the Hell It Was so Hard
My name is Guy Sopher, I’m the lead developer and co-creator of the Pro Gallery. I’ve overseen its growth from a bold idea to the...
May 25, 20204 min read
Stand Up and Fight, E01P01: Full Transcript
A major part of our engineering culture is to take an active part in the global developers’ community by sharing the best of our...
May 21, 202011 min read
A Promise of a Bright Future With Async Iterators, Generators, and Pipes, Part 1
Photo byTom Parkes on Unsplash Abstract In my previous blog post Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript, I explained how...
May 17, 20207 min read
Introducing Wix Engineering Podcast
A major part of our engineering culture is to take an active part in the global developers’ community by sharing the best of our...
Apr 12, 20201 min read
Helping Seniors During the Covid-19 Crisis
Photo by Michael Marais on Unsplash In one week, we partnered with local authorities to build a volunteer call center app to help...
Apr 7, 20208 min read
Leading Server Software Infrastructure Group at Wix Engineering: Meet Yuval Perry
Here, at Wix Engineering, we’re always on the hunt for technical challenges and personal growth. So, it’s no wonder that our Server Guild...
Mar 17, 20204 min read
Making Order in CI/CD Mess
In this post I will describe the motivation that led us at Wix Engineering to develop a CI portal that would truly facilitate developers’...
Mar 1, 20205 min read
Looking Back at 2019 - Wix Engineering Blog
Wix Engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2019, we shared our experience, insights...
Feb 16, 20202 min read
Quix Version 1: Now also Supporting Amazon Athena, Google BigQuery and Generic JDBC
What is Quix? Quix is an open source notebook manager that’s focused on ease of use and shareability and aims to be a shared space for...
Feb 4, 20202 min read
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