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The Great Rewrite - How Wix is Preparing to Rewrite 100s of Systems - Part 2

Jun 248 min read

Platform Engineering

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...

The Great Rewrite - How Wix is Preparing to Rewrite 100s of Systems - Part 1

May 295 min read

Platform Engineering

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...

Velocity, Culture, Growth and Cost Saving: Behind the Scenes of Wix Server Guild

May 2, 20233 min read

Guilds

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...

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Armon Dadgar, Matan Cohen and Ran Schneider

Jun 21, 202230 min read

Engineering Culture

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

Engineering Culture

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...

Building a Resilient Infrastructure to Overcome Outages at Scale: Introducing Reactive Production

Dec 16, 20216 min read

Scaling

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...

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....

4 Steps for Kafka Rebalance - Notes From the Field

Jan 4, 20216 min read

Scaling

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...