May 2, 20233 minGuildsVelocity, Culture, Growth and Cost Saving: Behind the Scenes of Wix Server GuildWix Server Guild was established ten years ago and became the golden standard of how an “operational guild” should be. It was the first...
Jun 21, 202230 minEngineering CultureWix Engineering Tech Interviews: Armon Dadgar, Matan Cohen and Ran SchneiderWe love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Feb 20, 20221 minEngineering CultureWix Engineering Stats & Facts 20213.85Bn 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...
Dec 16, 20216 minScalingBuilding a Resilient Infrastructure to Overcome Outages at Scale: Introducing Reactive ProductionYour 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...
Feb 28, 202114 minEngineering CultureThe Race for Black Friday, E09: Full TranscriptEvery year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, traffic to online shopping sites spikes three, four, five times over. Websites built to...
Feb 15, 202110 minBazelToo Much Code for Bazel Monorepo? Try Going VirtualBazel is really optimized for monorepo. Yet, at Wix we are able to run it with source dependencies between 50 interdependent git...
Feb 8, 20215 minDatabaseScaling Bazel External Dependencies at WixPhoto by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash In the recent past at Wix Engineering we migrated our backend systems to the Bazel build system....
Jan 4, 20216 minScaling4 Steps for Kafka Rebalance - Notes From the FieldPhoto by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Apache Kafka is a popular distributed event streaming platform used for data pipelines, streaming...