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Quix Version 1: Now also Supporting Amazon Athena, Google BigQuery and Generic JDBC
What is Quix? Quix is an open source notebook manager that’s focused on ease of use and shareability and aims to be a shared space for...
Feb 4, 20202 min read
BazelCon 2019: Lessons-learned from Migrating our Build System to Bazel
The Bazel User Conference is an annual gathering of the community surrounding the Bazel build system. With great tech talks, demos, and...
Jan 26, 20203 min read
A Deeper Look into GraalVM
GraalVM is one of the most exciting open source technologies Oracle released in the past few years, as it enables true polyglot in an...
Dec 23, 20192 min read
Introducing Kampos - A Tiny and Fast Effects Compositor
Sometimes, all you need is just a tiny and fast effects compositor. In short Kampos is a library that uses WebGL to apply filters and...
Sep 24, 20193 min read
Trim the Fat From Your Bundles Using Webpack Analyzer & React Lazy/Suspense
As client side applications become more complex, their bundle sizes become bigger and bigger. Devices and regions with slower connections...
Sep 2, 20197 min read
Introducing Exodus - Easily Migrate from Maven to Bazel
So you've decided to make the switch to Bazel as your build tool - good choice! Now you're planning the next step. Migrating to a new...
Aug 12, 20194 min read
Introducing Quix: Presto-based Notebook Manager for Fast and Easy Data Exploration
Quix is a multi-user, easy-to-use notebook manager. By utilizing Presto it provides unified access to multiple data sources and...
Jul 17, 20193 min read
Build Your Own webpack in 30 Minutes
It’s not every day that we get to see the inner workings of such a fundamental tool like a bundler. These workhorses help to bridge the...
May 26, 20194 min read
Get Slim Bundles with the Import-Cost Extension
Bloated websites and web applications have become an epidemic of the modern web. While this is not much of an issue for users with...
Apr 22, 20194 min read
Finally, a React Refactoring Tool - Introducing Glean
Being a big fan of open-source software, we are always keen to contribute to the developer community; check out our projects on GitHub....
Oct 17, 20183 min read
Meet Raven TestKit: Wix Engineering's Open Source Tool to Test Sentry Reports
Raven TestKit is Sentry’s Raven SDK plugin to enable error report interception and inspection of the data being sent to Sentry. The test...
Jun 4, 20188 min read
Contributing to Open Source in 2017: It's All About the Culture
Dev-Centric Culture We, at Wix Engineering, have our own dev-centric culture, built around empowering engineers not only as employees,...
Oct 30, 20172 min read
GitHub & Wix Engineering Day 2017
“Wix is such a great global example of best practice in software engineering. With developer happiness at the core of Wix’s culture, Wix...
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Moving Beyond Animations to User Interactions at 60 FPS in React Native
What makes a good mobile app become a great app? What are the magical nuances that can set your app apart? Mobile is all about...
Mar 13, 20171 min read
Building and Open-Sourcing Wix’s A/B Testing System
Have you ever worked using Continuous Delivery (CD)? You know, that process where you push the code, run it through an automatic build...
Jan 19, 20156 min read
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