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.

Oct 11, 20218 min read

TypeScript

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...

The Art of Data Science, E15: Full Transcript

Sep 30, 202111 min read

Database

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...

The Reactive Monolith - How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing

Sep 29, 20217 min read

API

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 9, 20216 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,...

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Martin Kleppmann & Natan Silnitsky

Aug 26, 202119 min read

Engineering Culture

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 23, 20218 min read

Performance

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...

Coding with the CEO, E14: Full Transcript

Jul 27, 202113 min read

Engineering Culture

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 19, 20218 min read

Database

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...

Auto-Autocomplete: Generating Docs and Autocomplete at Scale

Jul 14, 20214 min read

Open Source

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...

Jun 27, 202111 min read

Open Source

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 23, 202116 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 14, 20218 min read

Open Source

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...

May 31, 202115 min read

API

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...

Moving Velo to Multiple Container Sites: The Why, The How and The Lessons Learned

May 30, 20215 min read

Database

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 19, 202110 min read

Scaling

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,...

Apr 28, 202114 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 21, 20216 min read

Testing

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 6, 202116 min read

Engineering Culture

Looking Back at 2020 - Wix Engineering

We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2020, we shared our experience and insights on...

Performance, Bundles and Headaches: Optimizing Your Code, E10: Full Transcript

Mar 24, 202112 min read

JavaScript

Performance, Bundles and Headaches: Optimizing Your Code, E10: Full Transcript

When members of his analytics team began noticing long load times in the Wix Dashboard, originally, Eyal Eizenberg wasn’t quite sure why....

Custom React Hook: When Software Design Meets React Hooks

Mar 7, 20216 min read

JavaScript

Custom React Hook: When Software Design Meets React Hooks

Photo by Damir Spanic Hire on Unsplash Encapsulate fetch calls, logic, caching, and component state, all inside a custom React Hook...

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...

The Race for Black Friday, E09: Full Transcript

Feb 28, 202114 min read

Engineering Culture

The Race for Black Friday, E09: Full Transcript

Every year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, traffic to online shopping sites spikes three, four, five times over. Websites built to...

Feb 15, 202110 min read

Bazel

Too Much Code for Bazel Monorepo? Try Going Virtual

Bazel is really optimized for monorepo. Yet, at Wix we are able to run it with source dependencies between 50 interdependent git...

Scaling Bazel External Dependencies at Wix

Feb 8, 20215 min read

Database

Scaling Bazel External Dependencies at Wix

Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash In the recent past at Wix Engineering we migrated our backend systems to the Bazel build system....

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