# How Wix Built a Code Migration Platform to Automate Cross-Team Repository Changes

DevFeed: [How Wix Built a Code Migration Platform to Automate Cross-Team Repository Changes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/code-migrations-don-t-have-to-hurt-this-is-how-switched-from-cross-team-manual-work-to-an-automatic-infrastructure-22638.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.wix.engineering/post/how-wix-saved-650-developer-days-in-one-quarter-by-automating-code-migrations>)

Author: Wix Engineering

Published: 2026-07-22T14:10:18Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Wix Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/wix-engineering.md>)

Topics: [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [automatic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automatic.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>)

## AI overview

Wix describes building a Code Migration Platform to reduce the coordination burden of large-scale code migrations. The platform is intended to identify affected repositories, apply changes automatically, and track migration work centrally. The article says Wix initiates 50 migrations annually, affects hundreds of repositories per migration, touches 6,000 repositories each year, and spends 25% of organizational developer time on migrations.

## Source excerpt

No one wakes up excited to do a code migration. Deprecated libraries, method version upgrades, infra changes - they happen constantly, they affect dozens of teams, and they always arrive at the worst possible moment. A small technical change somehow becomes months of coordination. Slack threads. Priority negotiation. Manual tracking. Reminders. Many google sheets. For years, I managed cross-team projects at Wix, and migrations were always the hardest part. Not because they're technically...