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.

How Wix Applied Multi-threading to Node.js and Cut Thousands of SSR Pods and Money

Sep 21, 20225 min read

SSR

How Wix Applied Multi-threading to Node.js and Cut Thousands of SSR Pods and Money

This post was originally posted on OpenJS Foundation Background In Wix, as part of our sites’ Server-Side-Rendering architecture, we...

May 2, 20221 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering: Book a Session With Us

Yes, we love telling the stories behind the challenges we face daily and how we solve them. We do it with our blog, newsletter, podcast,...

The Art of Data Science, E15: Full Transcript

Sep 30, 202111 min read

Database

The Art of Data Science, E15: Full Transcript

All data science projects are composed of the algorithm (model) and the data. While data scientists are natively focused on math and...

The Reactive Monolith - How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing

Sep 29, 20217 min read

API

The Reactive Monolith - How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing

Photo by Alex Wong on Unsplash We all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves...

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Martin Kleppmann & Natan Silnitsky

Aug 26, 202119 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Martin Kleppmann & Natan Silnitsky

We love telling the stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. We also love hearing about the insights,...

Coding with the CEO, E14: Full Transcript

Jul 27, 202113 min read

Engineering Culture

Coding with the CEO, E14: Full Transcript

Is good enough good enough? For years Wix engineers were building fine services, but as systems became more complex, it was taking too...

Jun 14, 20218 min read

Open Source

Change Data Capture at DeviantArt

DA Intro and Problem description DeviantArt is a vast social network with the purpose to entertain, inspire and empower the artist in all...

May 31, 202115 min read

API

Platformization, E12: Full Transcript

Platformization is technical, high-level work. But that doesn’t mean any talented developer can learn it like they would, say, a...

Moving Velo to Multiple Container Sites: The Why, The How and The Lessons Learned

May 30, 20215 min read

Database

Moving Velo to Multiple Container Sites: The Why, The How and The Lessons Learned

Intro Velo by Wix (formally known as Corvid) is a framework that allows Wix users to write backend and frontend code for their sites....

Apr 21, 20216 min read

Testing

A Look Inside Payments by Wix

Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg on Unsplash Payments by Wix is not just a name for the platform within Wix.com that powers millions of...

Scaling Bazel External Dependencies at Wix

Feb 8, 20215 min read

Database

Scaling Bazel External Dependencies at Wix

Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash In the recent past at Wix Engineering we migrated our backend systems to the Bazel build system....

Read Only Data Aggregation In a Microservices Environment: A Real Life Use Case

Nov 24, 20207 min read

Scaling

Read Only Data Aggregation In a Microservices Environment: A Real Life Use Case

Photo by fabio on Unsplash As a developer at Wix, microservices are my natural habitat. I truly appreciate the advantages that come with...

Scaling Wix to over 100M Users: The Beginning

Jan 22, 20163 min read

Architecture

Scaling Wix to over 100M Users: The Beginning

When I prepared the first presentation to tell the Wix scaling story, we had just over 10,000,000 (10M) registered Wix users. By the time...

Jan 11, 20144 min read

Architecture

Scaling to 100M: Service-Level Driven Architecture

This blog post is part 3 in the “Scaling Wix to over 100M Users” series. Read the previous posts here and here. Wix started with one...

Jan 17, 20136 min read

Architecture

Building a Scalable and Resilient Architecture

Like many startups before us, Wix.com started as a monolith application, which was the best architectural solution when we had no...