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.

Dec 21, 20235 min read

MySQL

How Wix Achieved Seamless MYSQL Schema Evolution: Navigating Complex Application Growth with Zero Downtime

As applications grow and evolve to be more and more complex, the schema also evolves to support new business logic. Updating a MYSQL...

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...

Scaling to 100M: To Cache or Not to Cache?

Dec 18, 20154 min read

MySQL

Scaling to 100M: To Cache or Not to Cache?

This blog post is part 2 in the “Scaling Wix to over 100M Users” series. Read part 1 here. When Wix started, we used the Tomcat,...

How Does HikariCP Compare to Other Connection Pools?

May 14, 20153 min read

Java

How Does HikariCP Compare to Other Connection Pools?

This blog post is a follow up to “How Many Threads Does It Take to Fill a Pool?”, written by Yoav Abrahami in June 2013. In Yoav’s post,...