In the fast-paced world of software development, it’s important to stop our daily coding processes (just for a while!), clear our minds, and take a deep-dive into more advanced engineering topics and challenges - in areas such as microservices, scale, deployment and monitoring. So let’s do just that! Join Avi Mualem and Oded Apel in this 3-part talk, as they share professional insights and take you into their own experiences and lessons learned from many years of experimenting, learning and...

In the fast-paced world of software development, it’s important to stop our daily coding processes (just for a while!), clear our minds, and take a deep-dive into more advanced engineering topics and challenges - in areas such as microservices, scale, deployment and monitoring. So let’s do just that! Join Avi Mualem and Oded Apel in this 3-part talk, as they share professional insights and take you into their own experiences and lessons learned from many years of experimenting, learning and...

In the fast-paced world of software development, it’s important to stop our daily coding processes (just for a while!), clear our minds, and take a deep-dive into more advanced engineering topics and challenges - in areas such as microservices, scale, deployment and monitoring. Join Wix Engineering's Avi Mualem and Oded Apel in this new 3-part talk, as they share professional insights and take you into their own experiences and lessons learned from many years of experimenting, learning and...

Most developers work on large code repositories--files with thousands upon thousands of lines of code which reference, call and stack on top of one another to create a crazy complex final product. But you can also break a codebase into small, component parts that can be addressed individually, rearranged and swapped in and out as you’d like. We call this “modular.” Is it the best way to code your software?

It took time for Kent Dodds to not just build a following, but to develop a voice -- a unique perspective that people wanted to hear in the dev community. How did he do it? And how can you become the kind of person that other developers want to listen to?

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 development velocity? The answer is “Design Systems”. Listen to Asaf Yonay and Liron Cohen explain more on organizing order out of chaos.

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 sub-optimal way. We could be doing better. Listen to Dvir Mizrahi tell the story of FinOps - developing a smarter and better financial engineering culture.

When Wix needed a company-wide toolkit, the front-end infrastructure team decided to build it openly, letting developers around the company participate in its development, similar to the way the open source works. Hundreds took up the task. Was it chaos, or a new and better way of developing software? Listen to the full story with Ran Yitzhaki.

All data science projects are composed of the algorithm (model) and the data. While data scientists are natively focused on math and models, experience is showing them that for a data science project to succeed in real life, much more than a deep understanding of math is needed. Gilad and Noa will take us through the journey their team went on in transforming from working with a model-centric to a data-centric approach. In this episode of the Wix Engineering Podcast: how a data science team...

Is good enough good enough? For years Wix engineers were building fine services, but as systems became more complex, it was taking too long to do it. The code was clean, but it took thousands of lines for each service. It was inefficient, so Wix’s CEO & Co-Founder, Avishai Abrahami, decided to step in. He set up weekly, hands-on, coding sessions with his best developers, to chart a new path. The goal that he set for Engineering was that a project that took months before would take...

How do you get all the divisions, teams, employees and projects in a company to follow a single rule? You can email everyone, but good luck getting them to read it. You can talk to everybody individually, if you have unlimited free time on your hands. Last year, Roy Sommer and his team members decided they needed a better way. So they founded CI Police.

Platformization is technical, high-level work. But that doesn’t mean any talented developer can learn it like they would, say, a programming language. In fact, this kind of work is hardly about the technical details at all. When Dan Bar Shalom joined Wix, he became the second member of a two-man team. Together with his colleague Itai Chejanovsky, he had to organize an entire company of developers to work towards one, common goal - unifying code. This was not so much a job for a technician,...

Yevheniia Hlovatska and Kateryna Chernikova are part of a QA team that was working remotely long before the pandemic. They collaborated across distances, in a lot of the new ways and using a lot of the new tools we’re using now, as part of our Covid-19 routine. They did it not because they had to, but because they wanted to. Because it made them work better.

When members of his analytics team began noticing long load times in the Wix Dashboard, originally, Eyal Eizenberg wasn’t quite sure why. When taking a closer look at the code he realized what was wrong: a progress bar--a minor, largely superficial feature that happened to be weighing down the entire app. Turns out Eyal’s problem is common to all web developers (even those who don’t realize it).   In this episode, we’ll talk with Eyal and Addy Osmani--Engineering Manager at Google--to learn...

For consumers, Black Friday is a convenient time to get a good deal. For developers, it is a tsunami ready to take down everything in its path.    Every year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, traffic to online shopping sites spikes three, four, five times over. Websites built to accommodate a certain amount of demand can easily be overwhelmed by a stampede of customers they don’t see at any other time of the year. How, then, is it possible to avoid system breakdowns?    Jonathan Ginzburg,...

Onboarding during a pandemic is difficult. Hiring good people, making them feel welcome and integrating them into an organization structure is a nightmare when you can only communicate on Zoom calls and over Slack. No need to mention how crucial onboarding is impacting any company, but onboarding was also a challenge before COVID. Two years ago, Wix developers came up with a solution - a system to eliminate the isolation, the confusion, and sluggishness of integrating new people into the...

Running a software company is hard. Doing it during a pandemic is even harder. Recently, we sat down with the leaders of some of the most prestigious tech companies in the world--Microsoft, Waze, Facebook and more--to discuss the biggest challenges facing our sector today. How can a growing company keep innovating, and avoid collapsing under the weight of its own success? How much freedom should managers give their developers, to ensure maximal productivity and creativity? What's it like to...

For years mobile development teams split their talent between Android and iOS in a way that was costly, slow, and inefficient. Then, in 2015, Facebook developers came up with a cross-platform solution called React Native. In this episode we follow our Wix mobile engineering team as they adopt React Native and work with it for several years while building the official Wix app.    

 The world was devolving into panic, as COVID-19 tore through every country on Earth. That's when Yoav Abrahami received one of the most important assignments of his life: to build an app that would service the entire nation of Israel through its pandemic response.  The kicker? He had one week to finish the job.   Want more? Read also here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/helping-seniors-during-the-covid-19-crisis

Rich Harris invented Svetle: a new framework for building user interfaces in web applications. It’s blazingly fast, easy to learn and battle-proven in real world application. There’s one problem, though: it’s not React. React is the 800 lb. gorilla of web frameworks: it has millions of users, huge enterprises, and it’s backed by none other than Facebook. Svelte is faster and slimmer than React, but at every conference and in every Twitter thread, Harris needs to fight an uphill battle...

Yuval Perry is Wix’s SW Infrastructure Group and oversees what is one of the most complex and challenging infrastructures in the world of software engineering. But to get to this point, he had to step out of his own comfort zone, in a major way. Back in 2012, Yuval was working for a company who had more than 60 microservices, and managing those microservices was starting to become too difficult. Knowing that Wix is doing the same more than 1,300 microservices, he approached Aviran Mordo -...

Microservices are useful for medium-to-large companies that've evolved past all-in-one software solutions. But when you start stacking up 12, 100, 1,000 different microservices, it seems almost impossible to manage. To keep everything functional, you may just have to take drastic measures.  

Ittai Zeidman, Wix’s Backend Engineering Lead, was in the hospital with his wife and two-days-old new born baby, when he got an urgent call from the company’s VP of R&D. A crisis was unfolding: the build system was broken, leaving hundreds of developers unable to do their work.  This crisis wasn’t an isolated incident: it was the result of a series of problems resulting from the company’s success and fast growth. Ittai and his peers faced a serious challenge - but they knew they...