Taming Distributed Systems - Key Insights from Large-Scale Experience

Explore key insights from Wix's large-scale experience in taming distributed systems in this 42-minute conference talk from Devoxx Greece 2024. Delve into Wix's journey of transitioning from complex event sourcing and CQRS to streamlined CRUD services, optimizing their vast platform for improved scalability, performance, and resiliency. Learn about the impressive scale of Wix's platform, handling 3.5 billion daily HTTP transactions, 70 billion Kafka messages per day, and managing approximately 4000 microservices in production. Gain valuable knowledge on simplifying architecture through domain events, resilient Kafka messaging, and advanced techniques like materialization and caching. Discover how standardizing APIs and employing tools such as protobuf and gRPC have enhanced the developer experience and fostered an open, integrative platform. Uncover Wix's strategies for microservice coordination, ensuring system resilience and data consistency, and optimizing query performance through innovative 2-level caching solutions.