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The Craft of Troubleshooting - From Art, to Science, to Automation
Those who read my previous post on postmortems know that resilience is a subject close to my heart. After all, at Wix we deal with...
Dec 6, 20216 min read
FinOps to The Rescue: When Costs, Engineering and Cloud Clash, E17: Full Transcript
Every company, and everyone, uses the cloud. We use it because it’s easy, fast and cost effective. But, a lot of the time, we use it in a...
Nov 28, 202113 min read
Graceful Worker Termination: How NOT To Do It
Photo by Lawrence Walters on Unsplash HTTP status 502. After that everything continues to work. Then another 1 or 2 HTTP status 502… This...
Nov 15, 20214 min read
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,...
Nov 4, 202112 min read
Should You Build Using Internal Open Source?, E16: Full Transcript
When we needed a company-wide toolkit, the front-end infrastructure team decided to build it openly, letting developers around the...
Oct 31, 202110 min read
6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI Pipeline: Part I
Comment: This article is the 1st part in a series of articles. You can find the next posts in this series here: Auto Scaling CI Agents At...
Oct 24, 202112 min read
Dipping Your Toes in the Functional Programming Sea
My journey with functional programming started not too long ago. As I was completing my onboarding process at Wix I was recommended a JS...
Oct 21, 20215 min read
8 Tips for Converting That Big Project to TypeScript
TypeScript has many benefits for teams when it comes to writing neat, comprehensible, and reusable code. It’s no surprise that more than...
Oct 11, 20218 min read
The Art of Data Science, E15: Full Transcript
All data science projects are composed of the algorithm (model) and the data. While data scientists are natively focused on math and...
Sep 30, 202111 min read
The Reactive Monolith - How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing
Photo by Alex Wong on Unsplash We all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves...
Sep 29, 20217 min read
Wix Engineering: Continue Your Learning Journey on Our Medium Publication
Wix engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and our way of solving them. You can read about architecture, scaling,...
Sep 9, 20216 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Martin Kleppmann & Natan Silnitsky
We love telling the stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. We also love hearing about the insights,...
Aug 26, 202119 min read
How We Improved Website Performance by Evolving Our Infrastructure
This is an updated version of the article, that was originally posted on web.dev. You can read it here. Thanks to leveraging industry...
Aug 23, 20218 min read
Coding with the CEO, E14: Full Transcript
Is good enough good enough? For years Wix engineers were building fine services, but as systems became more complex, it was taking too...
Jul 27, 202113 min read
Wix Inbox Journey: 3 Approaches for Zero Downtime Database Migration
Before we begin: I’d like to first point out that it doesn’t really matter what the source and the destination databases are in the...
Jul 19, 20218 min read
Auto-Autocomplete: Generating Docs and Autocomplete at Scale
In the past few months, the Velo by Wix team upgraded our large-scale open-source documentation and code completion system. It allows...
Jul 14, 20214 min read
CI Police, E13: Full Transcript
How do you get all the divisions, teams, employees and projects in a company to follow a company-wide requirement? You can email...
Jun 27, 202111 min read
International Women in Engineering Day 2021
This June 23rd we mark the International Women in Engineering day, and we wanted to celebrate it by bringing you more of the stories from...
Jun 23, 202116 min read
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...
Jun 14, 20218 min read
Platformization, E12: Full Transcript
Platformization is technical, high-level work. But that doesn’t mean any talented developer can learn it like they would, say, a...
May 31, 202115 min read
Moving Velo to Multiple Container Sites: The Why, The How and The Lessons Learned
Intro Velo by Wix (formally known as Corvid) is a framework that allows Wix users to write backend and frontend code for their sites....
May 30, 20215 min read
Wix’s Journey Into Data Streams
Photo by Mark Tuzman on Unsplash The quest of technological companies on the path of making their systems responsive, resilient, elastic,...
May 19, 202110 min read
QA Hundreds of Miles Away, E11: Full Transcript
Yevheniia Hlovatska and Ekaterina Chernikova are part of a QA team that was working remotely long before the pandemic. They collaborated...
Apr 28, 202114 min read
A Look Inside Payments by Wix
Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg on Unsplash Payments by Wix is not just a name for the platform within Wix.com that powers millions of...
Apr 21, 20216 min read
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