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 We're Able to Increase Dev Velocity and Boost Local Development While Using Bazel

Mar 4, 20218 min read

Java

How We're Able to Increase Dev Velocity and Boost Local Development While Using Bazel

Photo by Jasper Boer on Unsplash TL;DR How we at Wix made the transition of our backend engineers to the Bazel build system by creating...

Wix Engineering - Tech Talks Show, Season 1

Jun 25, 20193 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering - Tech Talks Show, Season 1

A major part of our engineering culture, amongst many others, is actively participating in the global developers community and sharing...

Oct 24, 20174 min read

Scala

Is Scala Still Relevant? Yup

When I started with Scala in 2011 it was a pretty easy sell: show any Java developer the collections library, maybe a couple of lambdas...

Oct 3, 20152 min read

Scala

A Tale of Two XML Transformations

A few months ago we noticed unusually high CPU usage in one of our services. At first we didn’t take it seriously, but when we got a...

Mar 23, 20151 min read

Scala

Scala Extension methods via implicit classes

In this post i will demonstrate a nice trick to add “extension methods” for a given class. Note: The feature is based on implicit class...

Oct 16, 20142 min read

Scala

Explicit Implicit Conversion

One of the most common pattern we use on our day to day is converting objects from one type of object to another. The reasons for that...

Using Specs² macro matchers for fun and profit

Jul 28, 20142 min read

Scala

Using Specs² macro matchers for fun and profit

At Wix, we make extensive use of the Specs² testing framework. It has become the standard tool for writing software specifications in our...

Jun 20, 20142 min read

Scala

Introducing Accord: a sane validation library for Scala

Accord is an open-source (Apache-licensed) Scala validation library developed at Wix. It’s hosted on GitHub and you’re welcome to fork...

Why calling Source.mkString() is a very bad idea

May 14, 20141 min read

Scala

Why calling Source.mkString() is a very bad idea

So we have some Scala code that consumes text from an InputStream from an HTTP response. So, like any good Scala developer, I handed over...

Mar 24, 20143 min read

Scala

Using Scala Pattern Matching for a URL dispatching mechanism

At Wix.com, we deal quite a lot with URL dispatching, being a company that handles editing, hosting and serving user-generated websites....

Mar 8, 20131 min read

Scala

Announcing underscore, the Israeli Scala user group

We’re proud to announce underscore, the Israeli Scala user group, with a meetup.com group to follow soon. Join us in building the local...

On Identifier types, type-safety and Guids

Mar 7, 20132 min read

Scala

On Identifier types, type-safety and Guids

How many times did you find yourself looking at an API which accepts some sort of string or int-based identifier and not being sure what...

Oct 19, 20124 min read

Scala

Scalapeño – The Israeli International Scala Conference

In slightly more than 2 weeks, Tomer Gabel – with whom I have founded Underscore, the Israeli Scala user group – and myself are hosting...