Wix Engineering Podcast

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.

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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 deeper on Bazel and Scaling with Natan Slinisky and Or Shahar.
Read more on our blog:https://www.wix.engineering/post/bazelcon-2019-lessons-learned-from-migrating-our-build-system-to-bazel
https://www.wix.engineering/post/introducing-exodus-easily-migrate-from-maven-to-bazel

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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.
https://www.wiumlie.no/en

You can also read the full transcript of this episode here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/stand-up-and-fight-e01p02-full-transcript

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.engineering/post/stand-up-and-fight-e01p01-full-transcript

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

Get the full episode transcript here: https://www.wix.engineering/post/stand-up-and-fight-e01p01-full-transcript