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.

Jul 1611 min read

Web Development

Navigating Web Evolution: An In-Depth Interview with Addy Osmani on Web Development and Developer Growth

In the ever-evolving world of web development, Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) has made a significant impact with his contributions and...

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,...

Feb 20, 20221 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering Stats & Facts 2021

3.85Bn 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...

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Zack Jackson and Dean Shub

Dec 13, 202116 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Zack Jackson and Dean Shub

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

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Greg Bergé & Gil Eckstein

Nov 4, 202112 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Greg Bergé & Gil Eckstein

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

Dec 7, 20204 min read

Open Source

Is Stencil a Better React?

Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash Intro Recently I went looking for ways to code web components and found this great post - “All the...

Nov 1, 20205 min read

JavaScript

Interlude: Rethinking the JavaScript Pipeline Operator

Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash My latest two blog posts were about implementing a small, lightweight iteration library in JavaScript....

Meet Asaf Yonay, Head of FED Infrastructure at Wix Engineering

Jul 21, 20203 min read

Engineering Culture

Meet Asaf Yonay, Head of FED Infrastructure at Wix Engineering

We sat down with Asaf Yonay, our Head of FED Infrastructure, to hear his take on FED infrastructure management, development velocity,...

Leading Server Software Infrastructure Group at Wix Engineering: Meet Yuval Perry

Mar 17, 20204 min read

Engineering Culture

Leading Server Software Infrastructure Group at Wix Engineering: Meet Yuval Perry

Here, at Wix Engineering, we’re always on the hunt for technical challenges and personal growth. So, it’s no wonder that our Server Guild...

Nov 7, 20198 min read

JavaScript

Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript

JavaScript provides a growing list of iteration methods, which can be used to manipulate array content in a functional manner. However,...

Trim the Fat From Your Bundles Using Webpack Analyzer & React Lazy/Suspense

Sep 2, 20197 min read

Open Source

Trim the Fat From Your Bundles Using Webpack Analyzer & React Lazy/Suspense

As client side applications become more complex, their bundle sizes become bigger and bigger. Devices and regions with slower connections...

Aug 6, 201911 min read

Web Development

Scaling up Wix Pages Storage

More and more times in the last few months our team started getting alerts during non-working hours about issues in our databases. What...

May 26, 20194 min read

Open Source

Build Your Own webpack in 30 Minutes

It’s not every day that we get to see the inner workings of such a fundamental tool like a bundler. These workhorses help to bridge the...

Ownership and Freedom: Reflecting Our Core Values in the Hiring Process

Nov 28, 20186 min read

Engineering Culture

Ownership and Freedom: Reflecting Our Core Values in the Hiring Process

When someone contacts Wix Engineering about job opening, or we share the info with our friends-developers, the inevitable question is:...

Front-end Platform Builders: Sharing our Insights With the Community

Nov 6, 20184 min read

Redux

Front-end Platform Builders: Sharing our Insights With the Community

Participating in meetups and conferences is often the pinnacle of being part of a developer community and a great way to stay up to date...

Dec 14, 20178 min read

Web Development

The Story of Making Wix Accessible

One of Wix’s mottos is “The Way the Web was Meant to Be”. We believe that everyone should have a website, and of course, anyone should be...

Aug 11, 20146 min read

Web Development

Continuous Delivery – Feature Toggles

Photo by Alberto Restifo on Unsplash One of the key elements in Continuous Delivery is the fact that you stop working with feature...

Continuous Delivery – Production Visibility

Jan 22, 20133 min read

Web Development

Continuous Delivery – Production Visibility

A key point for a successful continuous delivery is to make the production matrix available to the developers. At the heart of continuous...