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How Wix Applied Multi-threading to Node.js and Cut Thousands of SSR Pods and Money
This post was originally posted on OpenJS Foundation Background In Wix, as part of our sites’ Server-Side-Rendering architecture, we...
Sep 21, 20225 min read
Wix Engineering: Book a Session With Us
Yes, we love telling the stories behind the challenges we face daily and how we solve them. We do it with our blog, newsletter, podcast,...
May 2, 20221 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 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
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, 202114 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
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
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....
Feb 8, 20215 min read
Read Only Data Aggregation In a Microservices Environment: A Real Life Use Case
Photo by fabio on Unsplash As a developer at Wix, microservices are my natural habitat. I truly appreciate the advantages that come with...
Nov 24, 20207 min read
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...
Jan 22, 20163 min read
Scaling to 100M: Service-Level Driven Architecture
This blog post is part 3 in the “Scaling Wix to over 100M Users” series. Read the previous posts here and here. Wix started with one...
Jan 11, 20144 min read
Building a Scalable and Resilient Architecture
Like many startups before us, Wix.com started as a monolith application, which was the best architectural solution when we had no...
Jan 17, 20136 min read
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