Natan Silnitsky
@natan-s.bsky.social
Backend infra tech lead at Wix, Blogger. I advocate event driven design. Passionate about functional programming.
@warski.org thinks some pinning issues with Java virtual threads will never be solved. Have you noticed any noticable impact on your production deployment? how do you solve blocked operations? #DevoxxPL #virtualThreads #Java
Looking forward to @jbaru.ch and @gamussa.dev deep dive on vibe coding in IDEs in a 45 minutes @devoxxpl.bsky.social . I expect nothing less than immensely entertaining and insightful talk. #DevoxxPL #vibeCoding #cursor #windsurf #AI #AIAgents #IDEs
Had a fantastic time presenting at DevoxxPL! 🚀 Shared 4 Kafka async patterns powering @wixeng.bsky.social distributed systems: Public Integration Events, Durable Task Queue, Reliable Task Scheduler, & Long-running Job Iterator. Thanks for your great questions & ideas! slides ⬇️ #DevoxxPL
Teaser slide for my upcoming @devoxxpl.bsky.social talk this Thursday about the benefits and challenges of Async Patterns. Patterns like Public/Integration events, Task Queue, Task Scheduler and Task Iterator are common-place in @wixeng.bsky.social distributed 4,000 microservices system #DevoxxPL
Akka is suggestion Event Sourcing as the collaboration pattern for agentic systems? WDYT? Any other pattern you prefer instead? #DDDEurope #EventCentric #Akka #EventSourcing #AgenticAI
Loved presenting at #EventCentric on @wixeng.bsky.social event-driven, domain-driven design: single-aggregate microservices with only public integration events. Boosts dev speed but posed ops challenges we solved. Slides in first comment. #DDD #EventDrivenArchitecture #IntegrationEvents
After a long journey from Tel Aviv via Paris & Amsterdam, I’ve arrived at the stunning Antwerp Central Station! 🚄 Excited to share insights at #EventCentric and connect with fellow #EventDrivenArchitecture & #DDD enthusiasts. Let’s make it inspiring! #Antwerp
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A web-based OS experience, made with Cursor
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🚀 Excited for next week’s EventCentric conference! I’ll be sharing insights on Wix’s innovative, non-traditional event-driven architecture. Stay tuned for some surprising architectural decisions and real-world examples! Don’t miss it! 🔥 #EventCentric @eventcentric.bsky.social @wixeng.bsky.social
Slides from my geecon talk last Wednesday about blending the best of microservices and monoliths at Wix Engineering, powered by Kuberenetes and our internal backend platform! 🚀 #geecon #microservices #Kubernetes #GraalVM #cloud #monolith www.slideshare.net/slideshow/re...
Reinventing Microservices Efficiency and Innovation with Single-Runtime
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Excited to share my slides from my GeeCon Krakow talk on how Wix reduced the cost of microservices by running them in a monolithic-like single host-multi guest design www.slideshare.net/slideshow/re... @geecon.bsky.social #geecon @wixeng.bsky.social
Wix Single-Runtime - Conquering the multi-service challenge
Wix Single-Runtime - Conquering the multi-service challenge - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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Teaser for my GeeCon Krakow talk this Wednesday! 🎤 I’m excited to share how Wix's Single-Runtime project brings together microservices flexibility and monolith efficiency —delivering lower costs, better performance, and faster infra upgrades 🚀. #GeeCon @geecon.bsky.social @wixeng.bsky.social
🌟 Join me on June 5th at EventCentric 2025! 🎉 I'm excited to share how @wixeng.bsky.social scaled to 4,000 microservices through a unique event-driven architecture based solely on integration events! More details in the link in the first comment.
50x Faster and 100x Happier: How Wix Reinvented #IntegrationTesting
50x Faster and 100x Happier: How Wix Reinvented Integration Testing
Why Tests Are the Backbone of Healthy ProjectsIn the world of software development, testing is not just a formality; it's a lifeline. Tests act as our safety net, giving us the assurance that our code...
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🚀 Excited to share my talk, "Async Excellence: Unlocking Scalability with Kafka," from Devoxx Greece 2025! 🎥 Discover how @WixEng scaled 4,000 microservices with patterns like Integration Events, Task Iterator, and more! 👉 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTh...
Devoxx Greece 2025 - Async Excellence: Unlocking Scalability with Kafka by Natan Silnitsky
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🚀 Our #GeeCon2024 talk, "Scaling Horizons: Effective Strategies for Wix's Scaling Challenges," is live on YouTube! 🌐 Learn about horizontal scaling, Kafka consumer scaling, and sharding with DynamoDB & MySQL. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/goDAmu63Dy0 #HorizontalScaling #Wix
GeeCON 2024: Natan Silnitsky - Scaling Horizons Effective Strategies for Wix's Scaling challenges
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🚀 Our #GeeCon2024 talk, "Scaling Horizons: Effective Strategies for Wix's Scaling Challenges," is live on YouTube! 🌐 Learn about horizontal scaling, Kafka consumer scaling, and sharding with DynamoDB & MySQL. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/goDAmu63Dy0 #HorizontalScaling #Wix
GeeCON 2024: Natan Silnitsky - Scaling Horizons Effective Strategies for Wix's Scaling challenges
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🚀 50x Faster and 100x Happier: How @WixEng Reinvented Integration Testing 🚀 Are clunky integration tests dragging you down? Wix tackled this by transforming our testing process with in-memory testing—making tests 50x faster and developers 100x happier! www.wix.engineering/post/50x-fas...
50x Faster and 100x Happier: How Wix Reinvented Integration Testing
Why Tests Are the Backbone of Healthy ProjectsIn the world of software development, testing is not just a formality; it's a lifeline. Tests act as our safety net, giving us the assurance that our code...
wix.engineering
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
Slides for my Wix Kafka based async patterns from Devoxx Greece: Why, when, how & trade-offs 1. Integration events 2. Task Queue 3. Task Scheduler 4. Iterator www.slideshare.net/slideshow/as... #ApacheKafka #Kafka #DevoxxGreece2025 #DevoxxGR2025 #Async #eventdriven
Async Excellence Unlocking Scalability with Kafka - Devoxx Greece
Async Excellence Unlocking Scalability with Kafka - Devoxx Greece - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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Facebook got your social mask but OpenAI have your soul 🤯 (2 minute read) signull.substack.com/p/the-last-d... #openai #AI #monetization #ads
the last dataset
why chatgpt data is the most insane (& most valuable) set of data on humanity to ever be constructed.
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🚀 Had a blast giving my talk on Wix Engineering's Kafka based async patterns at Devoxx GR. Thank you for your insightful questions and discussions on Wix special event driven design. @devoxxgreece.bsky.social #ApacheKafka #DevoxxGreece2025 #DevoxxGR2025 #Async #eventdriven #sagas #outboxpattern
🚀 Can’t wait to speak at Devoxx Greece tomorrow about Kafka-based asynchronous patterns powering Wix Engineering's 4,000 microservices! 🎉 Here’s a sneak peek of some fun memes from my slidedeck! See you there! @devoxxgreece.bsky.social #devoxxgr #devoxxgreece2025 #Kafka #ApacheKafka
Will Europe have robotaxi champions? #robotaxi #autonomous #vc #level4 #regulation fortune.com/europe/2025/...
Self-driving taxis are speeding ahead in America—so why is Europe still waiting?
Despite years of testing, Europe has no commercial robotaxis. Funding, regulations, and infrastructure are holding it back—can the bloc ever catch up?
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Cut Kafka cloud costs by 30%! Discover how Wix Engineering optimized high-traffic topics with a push-based consumer proxy. Read more: www.wix.engineering/post/from-bo... #ApacheKafka #Kafka #cloudoptimization #finops #cloudcosts #awscosts
From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: How Wix Cut Kafka Costs by 30% with a Push-Based Consumer Proxy
In this post, I will share the story of migrating Wix’s backend services to use Kafka via a push-based consumer proxy. I’ll address the motivations for adopting this pattern, including the technical a...
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Is introducing Rust to Linux kernel making it safer and less bug prone or causing interop hell? WDYT? #Linux #rust #rustlang #OpenSource #interop #RustBindings arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase
Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.
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Fascinating! How adding GPT style "attention" to protein-structure-finding deep-learning models is helping develop vaccines and cure uncurable diseases #AI #CASP #Biology #AlphaFold youtu.be/P_fHJIYENdl
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Done
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