Wix Engineering Blog

Wix engineering blog tells the story of our daily challenges and our way of solving them. Read about architecture, scaling, mobile and web development.

22 hours ago
4 min

Resilience, Dev Velocity, Code Reviews, Chaos, and More: Wix Engineering Conference 2021

We love telling the story of our technical challenges and how we solved them. Throughout the years we shared our experience and insights...

5 days ago
1 min

Wix Engineering's Guilds: Meet the Server Guild

Yes, the Guilds are the soul and essence of our engineering community and source for professional growth. But what are “Engineering...

May 11
7 min

Fearless Responsible Development: How to Move Quickly without Compromising on Quality

This is the story of the culture, methods and tools, allowing the development of features in high-traffic super-sensitive components in a...

May 2
1 min

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,...

Apr 26
5 min

Fight Open Source with Open Source

In this article we explain how creating an open-source project helped us make sure that an internal library we developed at Wix and...

Apr 24
5 min

What I Learned From Wix Journey Towards the API First Paradigm

What is the “API-first” approach anyway? It means that you start with writing the API first. Simple, right? Now, seriously… This photo by...

Mar 29
6 min

How We Migrated to a New CI System with Zero Downtime

Comment: This article is the 3rd part in a series of articles. You can find the previous posts in this series here: 6 Challenges We Faced...

Mar 14
14 min

Looking Back at 2021 - Wix Engineering

We love telling the story of our daily challenges and how we solved them. Throughout 2021, we shared our experience and insights on...

Feb 28
24 min

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews: Gwen Shapira and Natan Silnitsky

We love telling stories behind the daily challenges we face and how we solve them. But we also love hearing about the insights,...

Feb 20
1 min

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...

Feb 16
10 min

Why You Might Need a Design System, E18: Full Transcript

Over 600 changes are being pushed daily to Wix's codebase. How can we make sure that Wix still feels like Wix while maintaining our...

Feb 10
5 min

Auto Scaling CI Agents At Wix

Comment: This article is the 2nd part in a series of articles. This is the 1st part - 6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI...

Jan 19
4 min

Reducing Cross - Team Production Incidents by Using Testkits

Introduction About a year ago I started working at Wix, where a big part of our daily tasks is cross-team integrations. Various teams at...

Jan 10
10 min

5 Challenges to Address When Moving to a Read Optimized View in Production

Creating read-optimized views is essential for scaling systems. However, transitioning to a stable, denormalized view without causing...

Dec 16, 2021
6 min

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 13, 2021
16 min

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,...

Dec 6, 2021
6 min

The Craft of Troubleshooting - From Art, to Science, to Automation

Those who read my previous post on postmortems know that resilience is a subject close to my heart. After all, at Wix we deal with...

Nov 28, 2021
13 min

FinOps to The Rescue: When Costs, Engineering and Cloud Clash, E17: Full Transcript

Every company, and everyone, uses the cloud. We use it because it’s easy, fast and cost effective. But, a lot of the time, we use it in a...

Nov 15, 2021
4 min

Graceful Worker Termination: How NOT To Do It

Photo by Lawrence Walters on Unsplash HTTP status 502. After that everything continues to work. Then another 1 or 2 HTTP status 502… This...

Nov 4, 2021
12 min

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,...

Oct 31, 2021
10 min

Should You Build Using Internal Open Source?, E16: Full Transcript

When we needed a company-wide toolkit, the front-end infrastructure team decided to build it openly, letting developers around the...

Oct 24, 2021
12 min

6 Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI Pipeline: Part I

Comment: This article is the 1st part in a series of articles. You can find the next posts in this series here: Auto Scaling CI Agents At...

Oct 21, 2021
5 min

Dipping Your Toes in the Functional Programming Sea

My journey with functional programming started not too long ago. As I was completing my onboarding process at Wix I was recommended a JS...

Oct 11, 2021
8 min

8 Tips for Converting That Big Project to TypeScript

TypeScript has many benefits for teams when it comes to writing neat, comprehensible, and reusable code. It’s no surprise that more than...

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