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Wix Engineering Podcast. For developers, by Wix Engineering: Architecture, scaling, mobile and web development, management and more. The stories and the insights of our very own engineers, shoulder to shoulder, with some of the most prominent voices in the tech community.
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Apr 13, 2023
Wix Engineering TechTalk, E01: Intro & API First [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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 practice.
In this first part, “Software Design & APIs First”, Avi and Oded talk about the right way of implementing an “API first” approach in your organization and the challenges it presents.
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Dec 7, 2022
Should You Build Modular Software? [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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?
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Oct 24, 2022
Be The Best At What You Do: Learning, Growth and Communities [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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?
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Jan 23, 2022
Why You Might Need a Design System [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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.
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Nov 17, 2021
FinOps to The Rescue: When Costs, Engineering and Cloud Clash [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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.
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Oct 12, 2021
Should You Build Using Internal Open Source? [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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.
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Sep 13, 2021
The Art of Data Science [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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 upgraded their AI by refocusing, changing their priorities, and creating a new workflow focusing on data.
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Jul 26, 2021
Coding with the CEO [Wix Engineering Podcast]
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 days now, every program with 10,000 lines of code would now be 100. Listen to this unique story, its challenges and impact
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/coding-with-the-ceo-e14-full-transcript
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Jun 16, 2021
[Wix Engineering Podcast] CI Police
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.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/ci-police-e13-full-transcript
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May 12, 2021
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Platformization
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, but a distinctly human endeavor. It was about listening to developers, making their lives easier, and helping them work better together.
In this episode, we’ll learn what it’s like to work in platformization. But more so than that, we’ll learn how to work with developers. Platformization may be a niche line of work, but getting people to work together is crucial to any team, and any company.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/platformization-e12-full-transcript
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Mar 16, 2021
[Wix Engineering Podcast] QA Hundreds of Miles Away
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.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/qa-hundreds-of-miles-away-e11-full-transcript
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Feb 16, 2021
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Performance, Bundles and Headaches: Optimizing Your Code
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 how developers optimize their code and avoid major headaches.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/performance-bundles-and-headaches-optimizing-your-e10-full-transcript
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Jan 19, 2021
[Wix Engineering Podcast] The Race for Black Friday
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, Head of Production at Wix, has one solution: break them down yourself. In this episode, we follow Jonathan, Shahar Zur and Fabio Furiosi as they conduct a multi-continental test of just how far they can push their system in production.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/the-race-for-black-friday-e09-full-transcript
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Dec 21, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Onboarding through a Pandemic
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 company, so that those people would feel at home right away.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/onboarding-through-a-pandemic-e08-full-transcript
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Nov 10, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Manage Through the Pandemic: Top Voices Panel
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 readjust an entire multinational organization during a pandemic?
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/manage-through-the-pandemic-top-voices-panel-e07-full-transcript
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Sep 29, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Breaking Down React Native
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.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/breaking-down-react-native-e06-full-transcript
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Aug 24, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Crisis Mode: Building a Nationwide App During a Global Pandemic
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.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/crisis-mode-building-a-nationwide-app-during-a-global-pandemic-e05-full-transcript
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Jul 7, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Outmatched: How Svelte Beats the Odds
Nobody in their right mind would create a product to compete against Facebook and Google. Except for Richard Harris. In 2016 he released a new JavaScript framework to market, to stand alongside React and Angular. Failure was not only possible, but likely. What did he have up his sleeve?
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/how-svelte-beats-the-odds-e04-full-transcript
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May 18, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Out of Your Comfort Zone
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.
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/out-of-your-comfort-zone-e03-full-transcript
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Apr 1, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Growing Pains
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 weren't the only ones: Google, Facebook, and Twitter were also serving millions of users. Utilizing and learning from these company's experiences, Ittai helped transform Wix’s build system from the ground up with Bazel, an open-source Continuous Integration system. How can developers face serious scaling issues, and implement company-wide infrastructure successfully?We will also hear about Exodus, Wix Engineering’s open-source tool that can easily migrate your JVM code from Maven to Bazel, and go…
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Mar 23, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Stand Up & Fight - Part II
Hakon Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, who invented and implemented CSS – one of the most fundamental technologies of the modern web. CSS was hailed by everybody – except one very important company: Microsoft.During the late 90’s and early 00’, Microsoft insisted on it’s own, non-standard implementation of CSS. This caused major headaches for the dev community, since IE was the leading browser back then – but there was nothing to be done. Microsoft was such a giant in the technology world, that nobody had the power to force it to change its ways.
In 2005, Hakon Lie decided enough is enough. In an open letter to Bill Gates, he challenged Microsoft’s CEO to prove his commitment to the future of web interoperability. This is the story of one developer’s willingness to fight for the principles he believes in, even against the biggest technology company in the world.In this episode we will also hear it from Gilad Segal on how Wix Engineering is taking CSS to the next level.
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Mar 23, 2020
[Wix Engineering Podcast] Stand Up & Fight - Part I
Hakon Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, who invented and implemented CSS – one of the most fundamental technologies of the modern web. CSS was hailed by everybody – except one very important company: Microsoft.
During the late 90’s and early 00’, Microsoft insisted on it’s own, non-standard implementation of CSS. This caused major headaches to the dev community, since IE was the leading browser back then – but there was nothing to be done. Microsoft was such a giant in the technology world, that nobody had the power to force it to change its ways.
In 2005, Hakon Lie decided enough is enough. In an open letter to Bill Gates, he challenged Microsoft’s CEO to prove his commitment to the future of web interoperability. This is the story of one developer’s willingness to fight for the principles he believes in, even against the biggest technology company in the world.
https://www.wiumlie.no/en
You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.enginee…
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