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.

May 7, 20232 min read

Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering @ Wix: Impacting the Future of Technology

Successful software businesses deliver high quality code fast. This goal, however, has become increasingly difficult to achieve. In...

Velocity, Culture, Growth and Cost Saving: Behind the Scenes of Wix Server Guild

May 2, 20233 min read

Guilds

Velocity, Culture, Growth and Cost Saving: Behind the Scenes of Wix Server Guild

Wix Server Guild was established ten years ago and became the golden standard of how an “operational guild” should be. It was the first...

Apr 19, 20238 min read

FinOps

Moving the Needle: 10 Lessons Learned from our FinOps Evolution

The pain point As we navigate through the winds of economic uncertainty, it's important to keep a watchful eye on our expenses....

Disciplinary VS Multi-disciplinary Teams: Pros, Cons and Why We Believe One of Them is Better

Mar 15, 20236 min read

Team Structure

Disciplinary VS Multi-disciplinary Teams: Pros, Cons and Why We Believe One of Them is Better

Many managers struggle with how teams need to be structured. It's a hard decision to make. There are many articles out there on this...

Wix Engineering's Stats Behind the Scenes, 2022

Feb 22, 20231 min read

Scaling

Wix Engineering's Stats Behind the Scenes, 2022

During 2022, Wix Engineering faced several technical challenges and achieved significant technological milestones. We handled 4.5 billion...

A Sentry Testkit Journey: From Writing 5 Lines of Code to 240K Downloads / Month

Feb 6, 20236 min read

Personal Stories

A Sentry Testkit Journey: From Writing 5 Lines of Code to 240K Downloads / Month

Last month my Wix open-source library, sentry-teskit, broke a record. It went over 240K downloads per month for the first time! However,...

Improving Our Security Posture with Ethical Hackers

Jan 29, 20236 min read

Cyber Security

Improving Our Security Posture with Ethical Hackers

This insightful interview with our security team was originally published on HackerOne in 2022. It covers how we leverage ethical hackers...

Building Smart ETLs Using Iceberg Metadata

Jan 17, 20234 min read

Database

Building Smart ETLs Using Iceberg Metadata

The challenge Business is dynamic and constantly changing. And so are the KPIs and logic that the business analytics are based on. For...

Be The Best At What You Do: Learning, Growth and Communities, E19: Full Transcript

Jan 2, 202310 min read

Engineering Culture

Be The Best At What You Do: Learning, Growth and Communities, E19: Full Transcript

It took time for Kent C. Dodds to not just build a following, but to develop a voice - a unique professional perspective that people...

Dec 18, 20222 min read

Platform Engineering

Velocity@Scale: Pushing the Boundaries of Platform Engineering

Successful software businesses deliver high quality code fast. This goal, however, has become increasingly difficult to achieve. In...

Dec 14, 20224 min read

Mentorship

Mentorship is a Powerful Tool: Here Are The Lessons Learned from Being Mentors

We, at Wix Engineering, love telling the stories behind the challenges we face daily and how we solve them. We do it using our blog,...

Threat and Vulnerability Hunting with Application Server Error Logs

Nov 14, 20225 min read

Cyber Security

Threat and Vulnerability Hunting with Application Server Error Logs

Introduction When doing application security at scale, you have to make peace with the fact that some issues may as well find their way...

Taking Wix’s Platform to the Next Level With 3 Golden Rules For API Usability

Nov 7, 20225 min read

Development

Taking Wix’s Platform to the Next Level With 3 Golden Rules For API Usability

The technical writing team at Wix stretches the boundaries of technical writing to include reviewing for developer experience (DX) and...

Oct 25, 20223 min read

React Native

Wix Engineering - Now An Official React Native Partner

After years of contribution and being an active part of the React Native community, as well as having our own Wix apps built using React...

Oct 23, 20226 min read

Migration

Breaking an Endless Cycle - Huge Migrations Done Right

A few months ago my team and I made a brave decision - we decided to rewrite our entire API layer towards a new, better API which was...

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...

Ready for Takeoff - Good Mistakes with Aviran Mordo: Full Transcript

Sep 13, 20225 min read

Engineering Culture

Ready for Takeoff - Good Mistakes with Aviran Mordo: Full Transcript

VP of Engineering at Wix, Aviran Mordo (@aviranm) shares what ultra-competitive technology leaders need to know about building the best...

Things to Know Before Running DB Changes

Aug 24, 20224 min read

Database

Things to Know Before Running DB Changes

TL;DR: Database changes are different from code changes and require more planning. Especially when you do a gradual migration with...

Aug 2, 20227 min read

Serverless

A Kubernetes Based System for Serverless Asynchronous Load

Velo by Wix enables website creators to extend their site by writing JavaScript code to add custom functionality and interactions to...

Wix Continuous Security Posture Management- Pt.2

Jul 19, 20227 min read

Cyber Security

Wix Continuous Security Posture Management- Pt.2

Welcome back! In the first part of our blog post, I shared about our amazing in-house security system that we built on our own, which...

How We Built a Cross-Region Caching Library

Jul 4, 20228 min read

Infrastructure

How We Built a Cross-Region Caching Library

At the Wix server infrastructure group we work daily on a set of tools that help make the lives of our backend developers easier, while...

International Women in Engineering Day 2022

Jun 23, 202219 min read

Engineering Culture

International Women in Engineering Day 2022

This June 23rd we mark the International Women in Engineering day. And this year, we wanted to celebrate it by bringing you the stories...

Jun 22, 20227 min read

Migrating Your Project to a New Stack? Here's What to Look Out For

Migrations are hard, most of you may know that. A startup company may face many challenges, from recruiting the right people, to funding,...

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Armon Dadgar, Matan Cohen and Ran Schneider

Jun 21, 202230 min read

Engineering Culture

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Armon Dadgar, Matan Cohen and Ran Schneider

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

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