Yoav Abrahami

Yoav is the Chief Architect at Wix.com, working with developers and operations to build the company's future products as well as accelerating and improving development processes. Prior to joining Wix, Yoav was an Architect at Amdocs Cramer OSS division. Yoav holds a MS in Physics and a BS in Computer Science from the Tel Aviv University.

Software Development
Yoav AbrahamiDecember 15th, 2015
4 209
Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL
MySQL is a better NoSQL. When considering a NoSQL use case, such as key/value storage, MySQL makes more sense in…
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Scala
Yoav AbrahamiSeptember 3rd, 2015
1 240
Refactoring with Kleisli Composition
For quite awhile we have been maintaining an application that processes XML and JSON data. Usually the maintenance consists of…
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Scala
Yoav AbrahamiJuly 7th, 2014
0 96
Explicit Implicit Conversion
One of the most common pattern we use on our day to day is converting objects from one type of…
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Scala
Yoav AbrahamiDecember 18th, 2013
0 151
Introducing Accord: a sane validation library for Scala
Accord is an open-source (Apache-licensed) Scala validation library developed at Wix. It’s hosted on GitHub and you’re welcome to fork…
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Enterprise Java
Yoav AbrahamiJune 17th, 2013
4 197
How Many Threads Does It Take to Fill a Pool?
In recent months we have been seeing a small but persistent percentage of our operations fail with a strange exception…
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Enterprise Java
Yoav AbrahamiApril 27th, 2013
4 143
When Maven Dependency Plugin Lies
Problem: We had an integration test which creates a spring ClassPathXmlApplicationContext and while doing so the test blew up with…
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DevOps
Yoav AbrahamiDecember 11th, 2012
0 138
Death by Redirect
It is said that the greatest harm can come from the best intentions. We recently had a case where, because…
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DevOps
Yoav AbrahamiDecember 2nd, 2012
0 115
Chef Happens – Managing Solaris with Chef
Adding Solaris servers to be managed by Chef was the most annoying entry in our Wix.com DevOps backlog for almost…
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