Wix Engineering Podcast, E03: Out of Your Comfort Zone

Wix Engineering
1 min readAug 25, 2020

- I am running around 60 microservices and managing them is getting difficult, any advice?

- Oh, it’s quite simple. Delete your integration and test environments first.

Sounds crazy? Or maybe brilliant? That’s exactly the dilemma our Head of Backend Engineering, Yuval Perry, faced back in 2012.

He was then working for company which was running more than 60 microservices — and managing things was getting difficult. He approached Aviran Mordo — Wix’s VP Engineering — for advice. That’s how he got that “simple, start by deleting things” advise, which definitely wasn’t the answer Yuval was expecting…

In this episode Yuval explains how he had to step out of his comfort zone in a major way to ultimately come up with a solution he himself described as ‘either crazy or brilliant’.

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