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I'm Natan Silnitsky, a backend-infra tech lead @Wix.

Here you can find my latest blog posts and conference videos.

Content about Event Driven Microservices, Kafka, Scala
, ZIO, and more 

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About me

Blog

29 ביולי 2024

Scaling Horizons: Effective Strategies for Wix’s Scaling Challenges

12 בדצמבר 2022

Troubleshooting Kafka for 2000 Microservices at Wix

25 בספטמבר 2021

How to choose the right database for your service

26 באפריל 2021

Leader election and sharding practices at Wix Microservices

15 במרץ 2023

How Wix manages Schemas for Kafka (and gRPC) used by 2000 microservices

14 באוגוסט 2022

Event Driven Architecture — 5 Pitfalls to Avoid

12 בספטמבר 2021

5 Database technologies used by 2000 Wix microservices

7 בפברואר 2021

4 Microservices Caching Patterns at Wix

11 במרץ 2023

How Wix Accelerated Open Platform Dev with Standardized APIs & Schemas

27 במרץ 2022

Migrating to a Multi-Cluster Managed Kafka with 0 Downtime

24 במאי 2021

How to successfully manage a ZIO Fiber’s lifecycle

5 באוקטובר 2020

5 tips for writing great client SDK libraries

Blog
Videos

Conference Videos

Interviews

Cloud Native Compass Podcast

Cloud Native Compass Podcast

Natan from Wix Engineering discusses event-driven architecture and the scale of Wix's website building platform.

Confluent Podcast

Confluent Podcast

Using Apache Kafka as the Event-Driven System for 1,500 Microservices at Wix ft. Natan Silnitsky

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews - Gwen Shapira

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews - Gwen Shapira

Gwen Shapira on Event Driven Architecture and Cloud Native Kafka

Natan Silnitsky at Scala Days

Natan Silnitsky at Scala Days

“Scala is very elegant and concise.”

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews - Martin Kleppmann

Wix Engineering Tech Interviews - Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann - On Fashion-driven Industry, Rewriting AutoMerge in Rust, and Kafka's Move to RAFT

Interviews
Open Source

Open Source Projects

Greyhound

Greyhound

Rich Kafka client library

Exodus

Exodus

Easily Migrate from Maven to Bazel

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