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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...
Dec 6, 20216 min read
Wix Inbox Journey: 3 Approaches for Zero Downtime Database Migration
Before we begin: I’d like to first point out that it doesn’t really matter what the source and the destination databases are in the...
Jul 19, 20219 min read
Wix’s Journey Into Data Streams
Photo by Mark Tuzman on Unsplash The quest of technological companies on the path of making their systems responsive, resilient, elastic,...
May 19, 202110 min read
A Look Inside Payments by Wix
Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg on Unsplash Payments by Wix is not just a name for the platform within Wix.com that powers millions of...
Apr 21, 20216 min read
Read Only Data Aggregation In a Microservices Environment: A Real Life Use Case
Photo by fabio on Unsplash As a developer at Wix, microservices are my natural habitat. I truly appreciate the advantages that come with...
Nov 24, 20207 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...
Oct 1, 20204 min read
Out of Your Comfort Zone, E03: Full Transcript
- I am running around 60 microservices and managing them is getting difficult, any advice? - Oh, it’s quite simple. Delete your...
Aug 19, 202011 min read
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