Platform Engineering

The Challenge At Wix, multiple applications share the same DB cluster. The reasons vary: consolidating apps from the same domain, grouping several small apps that don’t justify a dedicated cluster, or simply optimizing cost and operational overhead. However, this setup comes with a significant risk: every application on the cluster has the potential to impact all the others. One real example: we had a critical service related to user authentication sharing a DB cluster with s

Last January, the DB Infra team at Wix embarked on a strategic and very important mission: Migrating all of our MySQL EC2 servers from Intel based CPUs to the new shiny Graviton ones. Not only will this allow us to work on better CPUs, saving us money and improving our databases, we’ll be able to move to Amazon Linux 2023 OS and move from the EOL CentOS 7.0. That sounds simple enough, until you realize that we’re dealing with over 1K servers spread over 160+ MySQL clusters.

Imagine starting your day as a senior engineering manager at a fast growing tech company. You’re barely through your first coffee when your phone lights up with a critical ticket. The Kubernetes environments don’t match across stages. DevOps is in place. CI/CD, automation, monitoring, on-call rotations. And still, developers spend more time fighting infrastructure than building products. This is the moment many organizations mistakenly try to "add more DevOps." In reality, th

Introduction In the first part of this article (Introducing PlatySpark: How Wix Built the Ultimate Spark-as-a-Service Platform - Part 1)...

The Challenge Managing Apache Spark applications at scale can be a daunting task, especially for large organizations with multiple data...