- Feb 24, 2025
- 1 min read
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to support 8% of the internet? For the Backend Guild at Wix — also known as the Server Guild — it’s just another day at the office!
Our backend developers maintain a low-latency, high-availability environment for over 250 million users worldwide. To handle 500 billion HTTP requests per day and 500+ daily deployments, they run production across 19 distributed data centers and multiple cloud vendors, ensuring everything runs smoothly.
Want to learn more? Let Ittai, the Head of the Backend Guild, fill you in on the details in this quick 60-second elevator pitch!
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It’s kind of wild to think about how much work happens behind the scenes just to keep things running fast and smooth. When I play a this iOS game, everything loads quick and works without me thinking about it. But posts like this show how much effort goes into making that happen.
Handling that many users and requests every day is no small job. It reminds me that good backend systems are what make games and websites feel easy to use. Without that strong support, even simple things would lag or break.
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