Remote testing on Smart TVs
Recently, we joined the Frontendisti community at their November Prague meetup. Tomáš Zeman, Showmax Frontend team leader of the web and smart TV team, delivered a talk about how we tackle remote testing on smart TVs. This blog post summarizes the... »
The journey from PHP to Ruby
I got acquainted with PHP and started my developer’s career in 2013, when I was a 3rd-year university student. I received an offer to work as technical support engineer in a company that had a self-written framework in PHP. Three month later, I moved... »
By Showmaxers, for Showmaxers: PostgreSQL Terminology
Here at Showmax, we enjoy the luxury of being surrounded by highly-experienced colleagues. Somebody somewhere at Showmax can both understand and work with the thing that no one else can — all the time. Maybe it sounds a bit like bragging, but the truth... »
Ruby vs. PHP — which one wins?
I’ve tried a lot of programming languages. I started my programming journey in university — more than 8 years ago — playing with C and C++. Later, I added Java. In the end, in what I thought it was the final change, I switched to scripting languages... »
How to Aggregate Percentiles - Tdigest to the rescue
One of the most important sub-metrics of our Quality of Experience metric is buffering time. Nobody wants to see the infamous loading circle icon! Here at Showmax, we invest a lot of time and effort helping our customers avoid it. We created several... »
Get to know the data driven design process at Showmax
“We live to get everyone watching” — this is one of the claims that we have here at Showmax to align on what we aim for. Another claim speaks to how we achieve it: “We make it easy, relevant and awesome”. The design of our streaming application is... »