Wix Engineering Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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