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Yuval Perry is Wix’s Server Infrastructure group manager, what is one of the most complex and challenging infrastructures in the world of software engineering. But to get to this point, he had to step out of his own comfort zone, in a major way.
Back in 2012, Yuval was working for a company who had more than 60 microservices, and managing those microservices was starting to become too difficult. Knowing that Wix is doing the same more than 1,300 microservices, he approached Aviran Mordo – Wix’s Head of Engineering – for advice. Aviran replied – “It’s very simple. You should start by deleting your integration and test environments”. It definitely wasn’t the answer Yuval was expecting…
How did Yuval manage to step out of his comfort zone, and implement an approach he himself describes as ‘either crazy or brilliant’? What can other developers learn from his experience, about learning novel technologies and new paradigms?
