The Great Rewrite - How Wix is Preparing to Rewrite 100s of Systems - Part 2
Abstract Whether you are breaking down a monolith or rewriting a legacy backend service, all companies need to handle the challenge of...
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May 295 min read
The Great Rewrite - How Wix is Preparing to Rewrite 100s of Systems - Part 1
Whether you are breaking down a monolith or rewriting a legacy backend service, all companies need to handle the challenge of rewriting...
May 2, 20233 min read
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...
Jun 21, 202230 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,...
Feb 20, 20221 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...
Dec 16, 20216 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...
Feb 28, 202114 min read
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
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...
Feb 8, 20215 min read
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....
Jan 4, 20216 min read
4 Steps for Kafka Rebalance - Notes From the Field
Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Apache Kafka is a popular distributed event streaming platform used for data pipelines, streaming...
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