Wix Engineering Blog

Wix engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and our way of solving them. Read about architecture, scaling, mobile and web development.

If You Think Platform Engineering Is Just DevOps, You’re Already Behind

Imagine starting your day as a senior engineering manager at a fast growing tech company. You’re barely through your first coffee when your phone lights up with a critical ticket. The Kubernetes environments don’t match across stages. DevOps is in place. CI/CD, automation, monitoring, on-call rotations. And still, developers spend more time fighting infrastructure than building products. This is the moment many organizations mistakenly try to "add more DevOps." In reality, th

Dec 21, 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

From 60 Repos to One: How Wix Tackled Monorepo Migration - Part1

At Wix, we faced a challenge that will sound familiar to many developers: managing an ever-growing backend codebase spread across 60...

May 28, 20257 min read

Have You Ever Tried SQLing Your Cloud? The Power of Steampipe

We, the production engineers, are probably all very familiar with this scenario : Your TL : "Can you tell me which instance type is used...

Apr 28, 20256 min read

From Chaos to Control: How We Rebuilt Reliability in a World of Microservices (Wix Engineering’s Battle-Tested Playbook)

Microservices Reliability Playbook, 2025: You can find the link to download the full PDF at the bottom of this post The Microservices...

Mar 31, 20253 min read