S9 E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Yoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in Tel Aviv, and has spent 30 years in technology. He studied High Energy Physics in college, and today, he finds similarities in how you solve problems in building products and physic. Outside of tech, he is the father of 2 children, and enjoys hiking and mountain biking in the diverse climates and terrains that Israel has to offer. In 2006, Yoav helped his brothers get Wix started up and build it to what it is today. Fast forward to today, Wix has collected infrastructure and application partners, allowing them to offer these integrations to Wix users. What they figured out next was that people wanted it done for them, turn key, without having to learn how to spin up a server. This is the creation story of Velo by Wix. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Normally when you're doing regular backend software, you need to have a server and then you
0:06.0	need to have a second one for resilience.
0:08.0	And normally you're going to have another two servers in another region or another availability
0:12.0	zone.
0:13.0	So we're starting with four servers, each one costs $20 per month, even before doing anything.
0:17.0	But if we can spin up a server in 100 milliseconds, then you don't need them live.
0:21.5	When a request comes, you spin it up, do whatever you need, keep it live for a few minutes and
0:26.1	then shut it down.
0:27.2	And that means that the cost of server per website goes down by a factor of about a thousand.
0:32.5	But that means that it's free.
0:34.8	We can give you a server for free.
0:37.6	My name is Yoav Abrahami, and I am chief architect at Wix
0:41.7	and at of Wix coding products.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
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