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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 24, 20224 min read
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...
Aug 2, 20227 min read
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...
Jul 19, 20227 min read
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...
Jul 4, 20228 min read
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 23, 202219 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,...
Jun 22, 20227 min read
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,...
Jun 21, 202230 min read
Wix Continuous Security Posture Management- Pt.1
How is Wix’s organizational structure unique? Wix is organized around “companies”. Each company delivers a specific functional component...
Jun 1, 20224 min read
Resilience, Dev Velocity, Code Reviews, Chaos, and More: Wix Engineering Conference 2021
We love telling the story of our technical challenges and how we solved them. Throughout the years we shared our experience and insights...
May 30, 20224 min read
Wix Engineering's Guilds: Meet the Server Guild
Yes, the Guilds are the soul and essence of our engineering community and source for professional growth. But what are “Engineering...
May 26, 20221 min read
Fearless Responsible Development: How to Move Quickly without Compromising on Quality
This is the story of the culture, methods and tools, allowing the development of features in high-traffic super-sensitive components in a...
May 11, 20227 min read
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,...
May 2, 20221 min read
Fight Open Source with Open Source
In this article we explain how creating an open-source project helped us make sure that an internal library we developed at Wix and...
Apr 26, 20225 min read
What I Learned From Wix Journey Towards the API First Paradigm
What is the “API-first” approach anyway? It means that you start with writing the API first. Simple, right? Now, seriously… This photo by...
Apr 24, 20225 min read
How We Migrated to a New CI System with Zero Downtime
Comment: This article is the 3rd part in a series of articles. You can find the previous posts in this series here: 6 Challenges We Faced...
Mar 29, 20226 min read
Looking Back at 2021 - Wix Engineering
We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2021, we shared our experience and insights on...
Mar 14, 202214 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Gwen Shapira and Natan Silnitsky
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Feb 28, 202224 min read
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...
Feb 20, 20221 min read
Why You Might Need a Design System, E18: Full Transcript
Over 600 changes are being pushed daily to Wix's codebase. How can we make sure that Wix still feels like Wix while maintaining our...
Feb 16, 202210 min read
Auto Scaling CI Agents At Wix
Comment: This article is the 2nd part in a series of articles. This is the 1st part - 6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI...
Feb 10, 20225 min read
Reducing Cross - Team Production Incidents by Using Testkits
Introduction About a year ago I started working at Wix, where a big part of our daily tasks is cross-team integrations. Various teams at...
Jan 19, 20224 min read
5 Challenges to Address When Moving to a Read Optimized View in Production
Creating read-optimized views is essential for scaling systems. However, transitioning to a stable, denormalized view without causing...
Jan 10, 202210 min read
Building a Resilient Infrastructure to Overcome Outages at Scale: Introducing Reactive Production
Your entire house relies on electricity in one way or another. Let’s face it - without it, things pretty much just stop. And it is not an...
Dec 16, 20216 min read
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,...
Dec 13, 202116 min read
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