Women at Showmax
Meet Olga Tichánková, Android app tester
Every year, we use the National Women’s Day to publish an interview with one of our Showmax women, who are needed and respected. We share their stories to attract more women to apply to work with us – because they are brilliant colleagues and help... »
The Showmax Engineering story, Part III.
Delivering content securely, with best possible user experience
On the Showmax Engineering blog, we try to explain solutions to a pretty specific problem: how to deliver a high quality video streaming in Africa. To make our stories more intelligible, we started the series The Showmax engineering story, with the... »
Customer centric leadership
Interview with the Android team leader Martin Surab
The Showmax Android team is garnering more and more attention for its customer-centric moves — the most recent being for the beta version of the Showmax Android app, which is an official testing channel in the Google Play store. About-to-be-released... »
“What to watch recommendation” and our Film2vec model
To deliver the best content to the right users we utilize asset metadata - movie or series features like genre, length, stars, etc. - but that has some limitations to it. The set of possible tags for assets is always finite, and adding extra data manually... »
Assumption Testing: Don’t Throw Darts in The Dark
When software products fail, they do so because they fail to deliver the intended impact. One problem is that teams don’t tackle risks upfront. Will users choose to use the feature? Will users know how to use the feature? Will the feature deliver the... »
Delivering content the right way, Part III.
Serving content from multiple CDNs
It’s a challenge to provide a top tier video streaming service across Africa. Quality internet networks are few and far between, server locations are often not ideal (we need to connect very distant countries), peering points are limited, and every... »