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How We Built a Cross-Region Caching Library
At the Wix server infrastructure group we work daily on a set of tools that help make the lives of our backend developers easier, while...
Jul 4, 20229 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,...
Jun 21, 202231 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...
Dec 16, 20216 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 28, 202114 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 15, 202110 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


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...
Jan 4, 20216 min read
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