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Natan Silnitsky

@natan-s.bsky.social
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Backend infra tech lead at Wix, Blogger. I advocate event driven design. Passionate about functional programming.

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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@jbaru.ch talks about the big issue with quality and correctness of code written by AI, and suggests to fix by writing tests but not by LLMs, but with #Cucumber. Do you agree? #DevoxxPL #AI #LLM #BDD #Gherkin #tessl
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Software design documents: * write once * read maybe once @jbaru.ch #DevoxxPoland
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Akka is suggestion Event Sourcing as the collaboration pattern for agentic systems? WDYT? Any other pattern you prefer instead? #DDDEurope #EventCentric #Akka #EventSourcing #AgenticAI
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🚀 Step Back in Time—Powered by the Future! Experience a nostalgic Mac-style OS from the '80s, recreated entirely by AI agents on Cursor. ✨ Retro vibes, cutting-edge tech. 🔗 os.ryo.lu Try it now! #AIGenerated #RetroComputing #Macintosh #Cursor #Innovation #TechNostalgia
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A web-based OS experience, made with Cursor
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🚀 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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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...
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Reinventing Microservices Efficiency and Innovation with Single-Runtime
Reinventing Microservices Efficiency and Innovation with Single-Runtime - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🌟 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.
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Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @frankel.ch · 28/04/2025
50x Faster and 100x Happier: How Wix Reinvented #IntegrationTesting
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚀 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...
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Devoxx Greece 2025 - Async Excellence: Unlocking Scalability with Kafka by Natan Silnitsky
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚀 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
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GeeCON 2024: Natan Silnitsky - Scaling Horizons Effective Strategies for Wix's Scaling challenges
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚀 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
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GeeCON 2024: Natan Silnitsky - Scaling Horizons Effective Strategies for Wix's Scaling challenges
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🚀 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...
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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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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Facebook got your social mask but OpenAI have your soul 🤯 (2 minute read) signull.substack.com/p/the-last-d... #openai #AI #monetization #ads
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚀 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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🚀 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
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The age of AI has come at the right time :) #AI #doomscrolling #ADHD futurism.com/neoscope/hum...
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Human Intelligence Sharply Declining
No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Will Europe have robotaxi champions? #robotaxi #autonomous #vc #level4 #regulation fortune.com/europe/2025/...
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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...
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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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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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
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The Most Useful Thing AI Has Done
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"AI first" companies. Text-to-app product with 20$ million revenue in 8 weeks. Is your company introducing AI to the business processes? #AIfirst #AI #AINative www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...
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AI-Native Companies Are Growing Fast and Doing Things Differently
Most companies necessarily approach generative AI as an innovation to integrate, but a handful of startups have sprung up with artificial intelligence as their starting point.
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We know data layers will survive the AI revolution. Will Kafka? #ApacheKafka #AgenticAI #EventDriven #AI www.infoworld.com/article/3808...
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A distributed state of mind: Event-driven multi-agent systems
How event-driven design can overcome the challenges of coordinating multiple AI agents to create scalable and efficient reasoning systems.
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Excited to talk about this innovative Wix Engineering project that blends the best of monoliths and microservices at #geecon in May! 🚀
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“You have to be in the details ... I review all the work now before it ships.” Do you agree with this approach? www.cnbc.com/2025/01/14/a...
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Airbnb CEO says the best bosses can be mistaken for micromanagers: ‘Great leadership is presence, not absence’
The best leaders stay involved in the details of their team and company's work — in a way that avoids micromanagement, says Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"Yes, AIs still make stupid and annoying mistakes... But you are overestimating how many stupid and annoying mistakes they make, and underestimating how capable they are on hard, intellectually demanding tasks" #AI #AIBenchmarks #O3 #OpenAI www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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It’s getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting
So what happened to that wall AI was supposed to hit?
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
2030 predictions: 1. Agents will use digital systems more than humans 2. Agents will connect data and analytics, first internally then externally to the Enterprise. 3. Highly personalized UI generation with AI #agentic #aiagents www.zdnet.com/article/ai-a...
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AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users
A 'binary big bang' occurred when AI foundation models cracked the natural language barrier, kickstarting a shift in our technology systems: how we design them, use them, and how they operate.
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Do you agree that Gemini 2.0 outputs least amount of hallucinations? #AI #LLM #OpenAI #Google #gpt #gemini www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-ai-mo...
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Ranked: AI Models With the Lowest Hallucination Rates
Hallucination rate is the frequency that an LLM generates false or unsupported information in its outputs. Which models have the lowest rates?
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"Survey respondents listed the lack of a standardized AI development process as a top challenge". do you agree? www.infoworld.com/article/3633...
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Building generative AI applications is too hard, developers say
A new survey reveals that AI developers face many challenges, including a skills gap and frustration with immature processes and inadequate tools.
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Natan Silnitsky @natan-s.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
www.infoworld.com/article/2259... Hot: #Rust, #Wasm, #GraphQL Not: #C++, #interpreters, #REST do you agree?
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10 hot programming trends — and 10 going cold
Hot or not? From AI models with API fantasies to memory-safe programming and compiled code, get the scoop on what’s in and what’s out in software development.
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