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Wix engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and our way of solving them. Read about architecture, scaling, mobile and web development.

Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL

Nov 25, 20165 min read

Database

Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL

MySQL is a better NoSQL. When considering a NoSQL use case, such as key/value storage, MySQL makes more sense in terms of performance,...

Aug 24, 20163 min read

ESLint Plugins: Plug into a Better Coding Culture

When writing code, it’s a good idea to use a code linting tool for several reasons: it identifies possible errors, enforces a clear...

Jul 22, 20162 min read

JavaScript

Build Your Own Chrome Extension

The Services Team at Wix uses JIRA as our Scrum board, which is displayed on a big TV in our team’s room. We love JIRA because it’s...

Jul 13, 20166 min read

Taking CSS To Scale: A Pragmatic Approach

Wix’s WYSIWYG website builder supports tens of millions of users creating websites, which are accessed by hundreds of million users...

Jun 4, 20162 min read

Two Services and One Angular Factory – Case Study

Running code in a client-side environment is tricky. Some APIs are available at runtime, but other APIs are not supported. Whether APIs...

May 16, 20163 min read

Java

Color Your Logs and Stack Traces

At Wix we produce gigabytes of logs for different applications every day. Logs are not the only way we monitor our systems, but they play...

Git: Committing vs Pushing vs Stashing – OR: “what to do if I just want to work locally”

Apr 20, 20163 min read

Git

Git: Committing vs Pushing vs Stashing – OR: “what to do if I just want to work locally”

Many people ask me for advice when they’re trying to modify some code locally without the changes finding their way into the remote...

Mar 29, 20166 min read

TypeScript

Developing Large-Scale Applications with TypeScript

As a front-end developer, you’ve probably heard about TypeScript. Maybe you even tried using it. But not many developers know what it is...

Applying Javascript thinking to AS3 – Anonymous functions

Mar 28, 20162 min read

ActionScript

Applying Javascript thinking to AS3 – Anonymous functions

When Wix started developing the HTML editor, many of the people whose full time job was AS3 development suddenly had to start developing...

Feb 5, 20163 min read

Refactoring with Kleisli Composition

For quite awhile we have been maintaining an application that processes XML and JSON data. Usually the maintenance consists of fixing...

Scaling Wix to over 100M Users: The Beginning

Jan 22, 20163 min read

Architecture

Scaling Wix to over 100M Users: The Beginning

When I prepared the first presentation to tell the Wix scaling story, we had just over 10,000,000 (10M) registered Wix users. By the time...

Scaling to 100M: To Cache or Not to Cache?

Dec 18, 20154 min read

MySQL

Scaling to 100M: To Cache or Not to Cache?

This blog post is part 2 in the “Scaling Wix to over 100M Users” series. Read part 1 here. When Wix started, we used the Tomcat,...

Nov 23, 20154 min read

JavaScript

Fluent JavaScript

It is not enough for code to simply work. Good code is meant to be easy to understand, and it is much easier to understand code that is...

Oct 7, 20155 min read

How Many Threads Does It Take to Fill a Pool?

In recent months we have seen a small but persistent percentage of our operations fail with a strange exception—...

Oct 3, 20152 min read

Scala

A Tale of Two XML Transformations

A few months ago we noticed unusually high CPU usage in one of our services. At first we didn’t take it seriously, but when we got a...

Aug 17, 20151 min read

JavaScript

Rekuire | a module for NodeJS

Just wanted to share a nice piece of code I created.. During my recent experience with NodeJs, there was one thing that bugged me the...

Maven 2 on OS X Snow Leopard killed by latest update

Jul 30, 20151 min read

System

Maven 2 on OS X Snow Leopard killed by latest update

So apparently, the latest Java update to OS X Snow Leopard broke Maven 2 support. It did so in a rather nasty way; For over a year now...

Jul 14, 20152 min read

The Microservices and DevOps Journey at Wix

We at Wix.com started our journey on DevOps and Microservices about two years ago and recently switched from a monolithic application to...

Jun 2, 20151 min read

Development

‘Leap Second’ Bug Fixed

On Saturday, at midnight Greenwich Mean Time, as June turned into July, the Earth’s official time keepers held their clocks back by a...

How Does HikariCP Compare to Other Connection Pools?

May 14, 20153 min read

Java

How Does HikariCP Compare to Other Connection Pools?

This blog post is a follow up to “How Many Threads Does It Take to Fill a Pool?”, written by Yoav Abrahami in June 2013. In Yoav’s post,...

May 8, 20151 min read

JavaScript

Wix guest appearance on JavaScript Jabber

Last week our very own Amit Kaufman (Editor Manager) and Avi Marcus (Editor Client Architect) appeared for a guest appearance on the...

May 1, 20154 min read

Java

The Lambda Experiment

I’ve recently started coding in Scala (recently being over a year ago). While I dislike Scala companion religion ‘everything functional’,...

Apr 24, 20151 min read

JavaScript

EasyPattern | Human readable RegEx

Checkout EasyPattern for Javascript and NodeJs! During some work on our internal tool, I have created EasyPattern, which is a readable...

EmbeddedJettyProbe – a simple tool for checking your HTTP requests

Apr 17, 20151 min read

Java

EmbeddedJettyProbe – a simple tool for checking your HTTP requests

EmbeddedJettyProbe is a small tool for examining the contents of HttpRequests that arrive at an embedded Jetty instance. This is useful...

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