Event-Driven Architectures at Wix
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Natan Silnitsky shares how Wix operates 2,500+ microservices and 70 billion Kafka events per day. We cover when to choose event-driven over RPC, schema evolution with Confluent Schema Registry and protobuf, Kafka cost optimisation, polyglot services, and ZIO on the JVM.
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- 0:00 Introduction
- 0:50 Guest Introduction: Nathan
- 2:24 Wix Scale and Architecture Evolution
- 2:25 The Scale of Wix
- 7:00 Developer Experience in a Large Microservice Landscape
- 8:46 Why Event-Driven Architectures at Wix
- 8:50 When & Why Event Driven Architectures
- 14:05 Distributed System Challenges and Resilience
- 14:45 Service Mesh
- 15:12 RPC Resilience and Database Choices
- 19:30 Dev & Ops
- 19:31 Platform vs. Application Developer Roles
- 24:22 Building Kafka Infrastructure and Proxies
- 26:50 Managing Schema Evolution and Versioning
- 27:15 Schema Evolution & Versioning
- 30:40 Service and Event Discoverability
- 34:00 Introducing New Tools
- 34:03 Polyglot Architecture Approach
- 37:15 Cost Optimisation
- 37:17 Scaling and Cost Management for Kafka
- 42:38 Essential Tools for Nathan
- 44:34 Guest Plugs and Conclusion
- 44:44 Plugs
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