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Rack awareness in Kafka Streams

Rack awareness in Kafka Streams

Kafka 3.2 comes with many exciting features. One of the new features in the Kafka Streams is rack awareness which is the 2nd KIP (Kafka…
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Levani Kokhreidze
Sharing Static Data Within Spend

Sharing Static Data Within Spend

Wise helps people who send money abroad save £1 billion a year compared to using a bank. We also help people spend their money without…
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Phil Cummins
How Wise reduced AWS RDS maintenance downtimes from 10 minutes to 100 milliseconds

How Wise reduced AWS RDS maintenance downtimes from 10 minutes to 100 milliseconds

A story of a fruitful collaboration between Site Reliability and Database Engineering teams
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Kristo Kuuskull
Running Kafka in Kubernetes, Part 2: How we migrated our Kafka clusters to Kubernetes.

Running Kafka in Kubernetes, Part 2: How we migrated our Kafka clusters to Kubernetes.

In Part 1, we talked about Wise’s motivations for moving our Kafka clusters to Kubernetes. We also outlined the challenges we faced running…
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Johnson Okorie
Running Kafka in Kubernetes, Part 1: Why we migrated our Kafka clusters to Kubernetes.

Running Kafka in Kubernetes, Part 1: Why we migrated our Kafka clusters to Kubernetes.

At Wise, we chose to migrate our Apache Kafka clusters, previously running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances, into a multi-cluster…
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Johnson Okorie
Diffable datasource for heterogeneous items in iOS/Swift

Diffable datasource for heterogeneous items in iOS/Swift

UICollectionViews are not historically great at understanding what’s happening with their data. They have a data source and when…
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Pattogató Bence
My First Year as a Graduate iOS Engineer at Wise

My First Year as a Graduate iOS Engineer at Wise

I joined TransferWise as a graduate iOS engineer on the 24th of August 2020. A year has passed, and what a year it’s been. A lot’s changed…
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Sonnie Hiles
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Behind the scenes of working in a Regional team at Wise

Behind the scenes of working in a Regional team at Wise

Good day! I’m Melvin, an Engineer working at Wise and I’m writing this on behalf of the roughly 90 employees who call themselves ‘Regional…
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Melvin Tiong
Engineering career journeys at Wise

Engineering career journeys at Wise

Wise has grown from 2 people to 2,400 (and counting!) in just 10 years, and as we grow, we want our people to feel that they can grow with…
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Isabella Lampela
Life in the Wise Platform team as a Technical Product Manager

Life in the Wise Platform team as a Technical Product Manager

Taking the leap to change jobs and pivoting from a familiar role can be an exciting, yet daunting experience. It can be especially…
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Laura Woo
When it’s not just a job: Career development at Wise

When it’s not just a job: Career development at Wise

In just 10 years Wise has grown from 2 people to 2,200 (and counting). As we grow it’s important to us that our employees feel like they…
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Vick Chandra
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