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Data-to-Production: Bridging the Gap Between Iceberg and Live Microservices
At Wix, our Data Warehouse (DWH) is a massive repository of insights. Built on Amazon S3 using Apache Iceberg table formats, and populated by Trino and Spark jobs, it houses petabytes of data—from user segmentation and logs to AI chat analytics. However, storage is only half the battle. The real challenge—and the "holy grail" for many data engineering teams—is Activation : taking that petabyte-scale data and exposing it to backend microservices with millisecond latency, high
Feb 177 min read


How Wix Cut 50% of Its Data Platform Costs - Without Sacrificing Performance (Part 2)
In Part 1 ( read here ), we shared how we built the foundations for cost-efficiency at Wix’s data platform: creating visibility into...
Sep 1, 20256 min read


How Wix Slashed Spark Costs by 50% and Migrated 5,000+ Daily Workflows from EMR to EMR on EKS
Introduction At Wix, we are constantly evolving our data infrastructure to stay ahead of the curve. As our data workloads grew, we wanted...
Aug 21, 20256 min read


How Wix Cut 50% of Its Data Platform Costs - Without Sacrificing Performance (Part 1)
In this post, we share the journey of optimizing the data platform at Wix, which led to a 50% reduction in monthly data platform costs ....
Jul 31, 20257 min read
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