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Jun 19, 2023 46 min

Event-Driven Architectures at Wix

from Cloud Native Compass Hosted by Rawkode Academy

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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Event-Driven Architectures at Wix

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  1. 0:00 Introduction
  2. 0:50 Guest Introduction: Nathan
  3. 2:24 Wix Scale and Architecture Evolution
  4. 2:25 The Scale of Wix
  5. 7:00 Developer Experience in a Large Microservice Landscape
  6. 8:46 Why Event-Driven Architectures at Wix
  7. 8:50 When & Why Event Driven Architectures
  8. 14:05 Distributed System Challenges and Resilience
  9. 14:45 Service Mesh
  10. 15:12 RPC Resilience and Database Choices
  11. 19:30 Dev & Ops
  12. 19:31 Platform vs. Application Developer Roles
  13. 24:22 Building Kafka Infrastructure and Proxies
  14. 26:50 Managing Schema Evolution and Versioning
  15. 27:15 Schema Evolution & Versioning
  16. 30:40 Service and Event Discoverability
  17. 34:00 Introducing New Tools
  18. 34:03 Polyglot Architecture Approach
  19. 37:15 Cost Optimisation
  20. 37:17 Scaling and Cost Management for Kafka
  21. 42:38 Essential Tools for Nathan
  22. 44:34 Guest Plugs and Conclusion
  23. 44:44 Plugs

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