August 25, 2023

#83 - Aviran Mordo // VP Engineering @ Wix

1 hour 6 minutes

The Wix Guild model, Mentorship and Platform-as-a- Runtime

Get inspired about architecture - that of computers and teams - in this CTO podcast with Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix. I really enjoyed talking with Aviran about both the technical nitty gritty of powering millions of websites as well as the Wix model which - unlike the Spotify model - is still in use at its flagship company over a decade later

Listen to find out:

How the Wix model works 🪗(+ hiring, personal development and communication across guilds and companies)

What is Platform-as-a-Runtime 🚄

Why most microservices 🪢 are done wrong (and are costing you money)

How to encourage mentorship 🫶

The infra that powers 7% of the web

Listen here

Timestamps

2:10 Aviran’s Personal Journey

9:43 Wix secret sauce

12:26 Cost effective serverless environments for millions of customers.

14:58 The Wix Tech Stack

16:00 The mission to iimprove developer experience

17:00 How people do microservices wrong

21:50 Platform as a Runtime

32:00 The Wi Guild model

35:37 Aligning decisions across internal ‘companies’

38:40 The Operational Guild Model

54:49 Improving the Guilds through Feedback + KPI of Guilds

1:00:24 Mentorship in the Org

1:06:15 Working on his networking skills

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