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Wix TLV Hachathon
Launch a Web App in 3 days to over 30 million Wix users! Join the first ever open Wix TLV Hackathon, March 7th to 9th, at Wix HQ in the...
Feb 14, 20132 min read
Continuous Delivery – Production Visibility
A key point for a successful continuous delivery is to make the production matrix available to the developers. At the heart of continuous...
Jan 22, 20133 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
The road to continuous delivery
The following series of posts are coming from my experience as the head of back-end engineering at Wix.com. I will try to tell the story...
Dec 17, 20123 min read
Lifecycle – Dependency Management Algorithm (Part 2 of the Lifecycle Series)
In the previous post in the series I introduced Lifecycle – Wix’ integrated CI/CD action center. In this post I’d like to share a bit of...
Nov 19, 20126 min read
Scalapeño – The Israeli International Scala Conference
In slightly more than 2 weeks, Tomer Gabel – with whom I have founded Underscore, the Israeli Scala user group – and myself are hosting...
Oct 19, 20124 min read
HttpComponents and cookies or: How to screw up your RPC framework
Here at Wix, we do a lot of server-to-server communication. Most likely any given request that you’ll send to Wix will hit at least 2...
Sep 21, 20123 min read
Jetty, Spring, C3P0, NewRelic, Jackson and Java Annotations Deadlock
Yes, we have just found a deadlock on our servers. The type that causes all the threads to lock and gets the whole server stuck. And...
Aug 27, 20123 min read
First TDD Israel meetup
Tomorrow Wix will be hosting the first TDD Israel meetup on the infamous Wix Roof. The event will sport talks dealing with our pragmatic...
Jul 10, 20121 min read
Chris Shiflett - JavaScript Study Guide
A few months ago, I wrote about learning JavaScript. I’m already pretty comfortable with the language, and although I did break the...
Jun 14, 20121 min read
Front-end Unit Testing with JavaScript
Unit testing can make your code less prone to bugs and gives you piece of mind that everything is working the way it should. Normally...
May 13, 20121 min read
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