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Sep 10, 20236 min read
Special Interview with Scott Chacon: GitHub’s Co-Founder
This year, our keynote speaker for Wix Engineering Conference 2023 is none other than Scott Chacon, the CEO and Co-Founder of GitButler,...
Jan 2, 202311 min read
Be The Best At What You Do: Learning, Growth and Communities, E19: Full Transcript
It took time for Kent C. Dodds to not just build a following, but to develop a voice - a unique professional perspective that people...
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 13, 202116 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Zack Jackson and Dean Shub
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Nov 4, 202112 min read
Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Greg Bergé & Gil Eckstein
We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...
Jul 14, 20214 min read
Auto-Autocomplete: Generating Docs and Autocomplete at Scale
In the past few months, the Velo by Wix team upgraded our large-scale open-source documentation and code completion system. It allows...
Jun 27, 202112 min read
CI Police, E13: Full Transcript
How do you get all the divisions, teams, employees and projects in a company to follow a company-wide requirement? You can email...
Jun 14, 20218 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...
Apr 6, 202117 min read
Looking Back at 2020 - Wix Engineering
We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2020, we shared our experience and insights on...
Dec 7, 20204 min read
Is Stencil a Better React?
Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash Intro Recently I went looking for ways to code web components and found this great post - “All the...
Dec 2, 20206 min read
Contributing Code in the Age of COVID-19: How We Came Together For an Open Source Hackathon
TL;DR: We successfully transformed a traditionally offline Goodness Squad event (a meetup focused on contributing to open source...
Nov 15, 202013 min read
Breaking Down React Native, E06: Full Transcript
For years mobile development teams split their talent between Android and iOS in a way that was costly, slow, and inefficient. Then, in...
Oct 22, 20205 min read
Best Practices for Push Notifications in React Native
Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash Push notifications are a great way to communicate with users and increase engagement. So much so that...
Oct 1, 20204 min read
Building a High-level SDK for Kafka: Greyhound Unleashed
Over the past 5 years the Wix backend services group has been increasingly utilizing and reliant upon Apache Kafka for inter-service...
Sep 29, 20204 min read
Introducing Repluggable - Solving The Dependency Model Challenge with Micro Frontends and Contracts
Intro Introducing Repluggable - our new library that implements inversion of control for front end applications, and makes development of...
Sep 13, 202015 min read
How Svelte Beats the Odds, E04: Full Transcript
There's a blazingly fast web framework out there, one that's easy to learn and battle-tested in real world applications. And no, we’re...
Sep 7, 20203 min read
Wix Engineering Updates & Picks
A major part of our engineering culture is about being active in the global developer community and sharing our best technical expertise....
May 25, 20205 min read
Building the Best Web Gallery, and Why the Hell It Was so Hard
My name is Guy Sopher, I’m the lead developer and co-creator of the Pro Gallery. I’ve overseen its growth from a bold idea to the...
Apr 12, 20201 min read
Introducing Wix Engineering Podcast
A major part of our engineering culture is to take an active part in the global developers’ community by sharing the best of our...
Feb 16, 20202 min read
Looking Back at 2019 - Wix Engineering Blog
Wix Engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2019, we shared our experience, insights...
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