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Ownership and Freedom: Reflecting Our Core Values in the Hiring Process
When someone contacts Wix Engineering about job opening, or we share the info with our friends-developers, the inevitable question is:...
Nov 28, 20186 min read
Front-end Platform Builders: Sharing our Insights With the Community
Participating in meetups and conferences is often the pinnacle of being part of a developer community and a great way to stay up to date...
Nov 6, 20184 min read
Finally, a React Refactoring Tool - Introducing Glean
Being a big fan of open-source software, we are always keen to contribute to the developer community; check out our projects on GitHub....
Oct 17, 20183 min read
Engineering Conferences Around the World: Here’s Where You Can Find Us
A major part of our engineering culture is to take an active part in the global developers community and go up on stage at conferences to...
Oct 2, 20185 min read
Step up feature delivery x100! Build APIs.
What do you do when you have a great product, but also a big backlog of features, and you don’t want to make your users wait until you...
Aug 2, 20183 min read
Meet Raven TestKit: Wix Engineering's Open Source Tool to Test Sentry Reports
Raven TestKit is Sentry’s Raven SDK plugin to enable error report interception and inspection of the data being sent to Sentry. The test...
Jun 4, 20188 min read
Wix Engineering's Talks Around the Globe, 2017
Throughout 2017, it was our great honour (and pleasure) to go up on stage at a variety of different events and conferences, where we...
Jan 29, 20189 min read
How to Test Your Redux App
[ironic tone] We all know that Redux is about functional programming, and when you have it functional — it is testable, right? You just...
Dec 27, 20175 min read
The Story of Making Wix Accessible
One of Wix’s mottos is “The Way the Web was Meant to Be”. We believe that everyone should have a website, and of course, anyone should be...
Dec 14, 20178 min read
Hearts and Minds: Shaping Dev Culture Through Technical Training
Culture entails what is acceptable or unacceptable in people’s behavior, it's what puts some companies at an advantage in recruiting and...
Nov 28, 20171 min read
Contributing to Open Source in 2017: It's All About the Culture
Dev-Centric Culture We, at Wix Engineering, have our own dev-centric culture, built around empowering engineers not only as employees,...
Oct 30, 20172 min read
Is Scala Still Relevant? Yup
When I started with Scala in 2011 it was a pretty easy sell: show any Java developer the collections library, maybe a couple of lambdas...
Oct 24, 20174 min read
The Cost of Streaming Data from MySQL
Though the question of “How to query data from a database?” is quite an old one, we still have a reason to investigate it nowadays. True,...
Sep 18, 20175 min read
Change 100M URLs and Live to Tell
You think changing your website’s URL is quite simple. Use “Redirect” and you’re done, right? Actually no, it’s not that simple —...
Aug 3, 20176 min read
Wix Engineering Conference 2017
As dear Uncle Ben once said, “With great power comes great responsibility”, and with over 100 million Wix.com users worldwide – Oh boy!...
Jul 23, 20173 min read
GitHub & Wix Engineering Day 2017
“Wix is such a great global example of best practice in software engineering. With developer happiness at the core of Wix’s culture, Wix...
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Moving Beyond Animations to User Interactions at 60 FPS in React Native
What makes a good mobile app become a great app? What are the magical nuances that can set your app apart? Mobile is all about...
Mar 13, 20171 min read
Recycling Rows for High Performance React Native List Views
Recycling previously allocated rows that went off-screen is a very popular optimization technique for list views implemented natively in...
Feb 10, 20176 min read
Testing Asynchronous Code
Asynchronous code is hard. Everyone knows that. Writing asynchronous tests is even harder. Recently I fixed a flaky test and I want to...
Jan 21, 20173 min read
Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL
MySQL is a better NoSQL. When considering a NoSQL use case, such as key/value storage, MySQL makes more sense in terms of performance,...
Nov 25, 20165 min read
ESLint Plugins: Plug into a Better Coding Culture
When writing code, it’s a good idea to use a code linting tool for several reasons: it identifies possible errors, enforces a clear...
Aug 24, 20163 min read
Build Your Own Chrome Extension
The Services Team at Wix uses JIRA as our Scrum board, which is displayed on a big TV in our team’s room. We love JIRA because it’s...
Jul 22, 20162 min read
Taking CSS To Scale: A Pragmatic Approach
Wix’s WYSIWYG website builder supports tens of millions of users creating websites, which are accessed by hundreds of million users...
Jul 13, 20166 min read
Two Services and One Angular Factory – Case Study
Running code in a client-side environment is tricky. Some APIs are available at runtime, but other APIs are not supported. Whether APIs...
Jun 4, 20162 min read
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