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Vision, Plans, and Contribution: Interview with Yehonatan Daniv, W3C’s CSS Working Group Member
We sat down with Yehonatan Daniv for a short and insightful interview. Together, we explored his journey as a web developer and member of...
May 16, 20234 min read
API First, Microservices and Data Modeling: Wix Engineering TechTalk
In the fast-paced world of software development, it’s important to stop our daily coding processes (just for a while!), and take a...
May 10, 20231 min read
Platform Engineering @ Wix: Impacting the Future of Technology
Successful software businesses deliver high quality code fast. This goal, however, has become increasingly difficult to achieve. In...
May 7, 20233 min read
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...
May 2, 20233 min read
Moving the Needle: 10 Lessons Learned from our FinOps Evolution
The pain point As we navigate through the winds of economic uncertainty, it's important to keep a watchful eye on our expenses....
Apr 19, 20238 min read
Disciplinary VS Multi-disciplinary Teams: Pros, Cons and Why We Believe One of Them is Better
Many managers struggle with how teams need to be structured. It's a hard decision to make. There are many articles out there on this...
Mar 15, 20237 min read
Wix Engineering's Stats Behind the Scenes, 2022
During 2022, Wix Engineering faced several technical challenges and achieved significant technological milestones. We handled 4.5 billion...
Feb 22, 20231 min read
A Sentry Testkit Journey: From Writing 5 Lines of Code to 240K Downloads / Month
Last month my Wix open-source library, sentry-teskit, broke a record. It went over 240K downloads per month for the first time! However,...
Feb 6, 20236 min read
Improving Our Security Posture with Ethical Hackers
This insightful interview with our security team was originally published on HackerOne in 2022. It covers how we leverage ethical hackers...
Jan 29, 20236 min read
Building Smart ETLs Using Iceberg Metadata
The challenge Business is dynamic and constantly changing. And so are the KPIs and logic that the business analytics are based on. For...
Jan 17, 20234 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...
Jan 2, 202311 min read
Velocity@Scale: Pushing the Boundaries of Platform Engineering
Successful software businesses deliver high quality code fast. This goal, however, has become increasingly difficult to achieve. In...
Dec 18, 20222 min read
Mentorship is a Powerful Tool: Here Are The Lessons Learned from Being Mentors
We, at Wix Engineering, love telling the stories behind the challenges we face daily and how we solve them. We do it using our blog,...
Dec 14, 20225 min read
Threat and Vulnerability Hunting with Application Server Error Logs
Introduction When doing application security at scale, you have to make peace with the fact that some issues may as well find their way...
Nov 14, 20225 min read
Taking Wix’s Platform to the Next Level With 3 Golden Rules For API Usability
The technical writing team at Wix stretches the boundaries of technical writing to include reviewing for developer experience (DX) and...
Nov 7, 20225 min read
Wix Engineering - Now An Official React Native Partner
After years of contribution and being an active part of the React Native community, as well as having our own Wix apps built using React...
Oct 25, 20223 min read
Breaking an Endless Cycle - Huge Migrations Done Right
A few months ago my team and I made a brave decision - we decided to rewrite our entire API layer towards a new, better API which was...
Oct 23, 20226 min read
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
Ready for Takeoff - Good Mistakes with Aviran Mordo: Full Transcript
VP of Engineering at Wix, Aviran Mordo (@aviranm) shares what ultra-competitive technology leaders need to know about building the best...
Sep 13, 20225 min read
Things to Know Before Running DB Changes
TL;DR: Database changes are different from code changes and require more planning. Especially when you do a gradual migration with...
Aug 24, 20224 min read
A Kubernetes Based System for Serverless Asynchronous Load
Velo by Wix enables website creators to extend their site by writing JavaScript code to add custom functionality and interactions to...
Aug 2, 20227 min read
Wix Continuous Security Posture Management- Pt.2
Welcome back! In the first part of our blog post, I shared about our amazing in-house security system that we built on our own, which...
Jul 19, 20228 min read
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
International Women in Engineering Day 2022
This June 23rd we mark the International Women in Engineering day. And this year, we wanted to celebrate it by bringing you the stories...
Jun 23, 202220 min read
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