On June 29 we proudly hosted the third WeStream meetup.

This time we directed our attention toward the fascinating world of frontend development, with a particular focus on supporting various platforms (smart tv or Android tv) and testing. After the introduction into the smart tv testing by Michal Topinka, we had the pleasure to host Martin Češka from Suitest presenting their solution that's revolutionizing OTT application testing. Showmax also presented what the Android team accomplished with Compose, and talked about adopting new solutions. 

For everybody who didn't make it to the meetup, we offer the recording of each of the talk. 

Michal Topinka

Martin Češka

Martin Šuráb

Petr Introvič

Join us for Backendisti meetup #13 that we are proudly hosting in our offices in Nové Butovice. You can give listen to talks by Productboard or our very own Backend Bravo Team Lead Ondřej Šodek.  

The meetup will be in Czech, find the schedule and summary of the talks below.

Varnish is not a database... Or is it? 👀
Ondřej Šodek, Showmax Backend Bravo Team Lead

Varnish nám v Showmaxu pomáhá udržet stabilní platformu i přes velmi rychlé nárůsty počtu requestů kvůli live sportům. Ale co dělat, když jsou requesty tak variabilní, že i přes cachování requestů je API přestává stíhat odbavovat? Ukážeme vám jak jsme tento problém vyřešili na našem Catalogue API, kde přidání další vrstvy komplexity a cachování mezivýsledků nám pomohlo přežít špičky requestů při World Cupu a dokonce i něco ušetřit.

All the Buzzwords: A Productboard journey
Tomáš Růžička, Productboard


DDD, CQRS, DRY, Git flow, microservices, monorepos ... svět technologií nikdy nespí a za každým rohem se skrývá nový hype. Jak jsme se s tím u nás vypořádávali v čase? Jaké chyby jsme udělali? Co bychom dnes udělali jinak? V tomto talku se budu snažit předat praktické i teoretické rady na základě dlouholeté zkušenosti s vývojem unicorn startupu.

evitaDB rychlá databáze pro e-commerce
Honza Novotný, CTO evitaDB

Doménově specifické databáze nabízejí vývojářům řadu výhod, které databáze s obecným zaměření nabídnout nemohou. Cílem evitaDB je pokrýt požadavky projektů v e-commerce a nabídnout vývojářům takové API, které bude pokrývat všechny základní potřeby v této oblasti, v takové formě, jakou jsou zvyklí konzumovat (GraphQL, REST, gRPC, nativní Java a C#). Kromě úspory času vývojářů cílí také na vysokou propustnost a nízkou latenci komplexních dotazů díky práci s in-memory indexy. Pojďme si ukázat jak takové API vypadá, jak vypadá dotazovací jazyk, jak si databázi lokálně za pár vteřin rozjedete a v čem vám může pomoci.

V průběhu celé akce a hlavně po ní se můžete občerstvovat jídlem a pitím, které pro vás obstaral Showmax. 

We delved into the world of movie streaming once again and the chosen theme was a bit poetic this time: we explored the lifecycle of a movie within video streaming libraries. Watching the recording of the talk you can dive into the intricacies of how we process these movies, enabling users to enjoy them, as we like to say, anytime and anywhere.

CDN77, represented by Michal Hošna, delved into the topic of low latency in live streaming give his talk a watch too.

Michal Hošna

Petr Friml

On April 26 the second WeStream meetup took place in Showmax offices and was whole focused on live streaming. 
We streamed the meetup on Youtube:
https://shw.mx/westream2live


We offered a sneak peek into how live streams are handled at Czech Television (Tomáš Leschak, iVysilani) and how we have set them at Showmax (Jakub Dušek, Encoding Team at Showmax). 

The talks in short:
(The recordings are below)

LIVE STREAMS at CZECH TELEVISION
Tomáš Leschak & Ondřej Černý, iVysilani 

Our presentation focuses first on the development of the iVysilani streaming department and the conditions in which it operates. Through illustrative examples, we describe the production workflow and technical background. The second part of the talk presents our own live broadcast production and a general analysis of our content delivery.

SHOWMAX's LIVE STREAM FLOW
Jakub Dušek, Encoding Team at Showmax 

We offer a sneak peek into the Showmax setup of the live-stream flow. You will learn how we manage to stream live events in 4K, and how we stream to both mobiles and TV screens in a market where satellite dishes are still the norm. We will touch on the different experience of streaming video-on-demand content and live encoding and will close with final remarks on delivering the best possible user experience on any device and across all sub-saharan Africa.

The follow-up discussion covered anything speakers might have omitted. 

Join us on January 25 at 6pm in Pracovna (Prague, Žižkov).

You will hear more about our experience with African networks (presented by Radek Zajíc) and listen to a talk about streaming training and lectures by our guest speaker Petr Hodač.

Network situation in Africa (Radek Zajíc, Content Delivery Team Lead, Showmax)

Have you ever wondered what the African Internet infrastructure looks like? What is it like to run a content delivery network there? And manage it from Europe? Wonder no more! This talk will uncover some of the differences between European and African Internet infrastructure, the challenges of deploying infrastructure across the African continent, and the common troubles you may run into, should you ever want to offer video content to the users in Africa.

Streaming of Trainings and Lectures (Petr Hodač, The Streaming Guy at AVC.sh).

Don’t miss a chance to ask us about streaming the recent #FIFAWorldCup Qatar in 4K (ultra-high-definition), or about high-volume streaming – In November, when delivering our biggest broadcasting event yet, Showmax announced a 111% year-on-year growth.
The World Cup opening match was by far the most watched sports event in Showmax history and we managed to stream it flawlessly, just like the rest of the games!
Ok, it’s time to stop bragging…come to chat about all of it in person!
The capacity of the event is limited to 65 people. We will confirm your registration back. In case you will fall below the fold, you can still listen to the talks as the event will be streamed.

Partner with us or check our calendar for more events

We are happy to partner with companies that has something to say about streaming video, audio, or SVOD product design and product management. Let us know you want to partner for any of the events writing to andrea.skrehotova@showmax.com.

We organise our own meetup about video streaming and we are eager to share our experience. Come to join us and discuss all video streaming

The meetup takes place in Prague. Check the scheduled event details and register to attend. If there is none planned currently, check out our calendar and meet us at conferences or other events.

Events

Upcoming Events

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Past Events

WeStream meetup #3: Frontend

Backendisti meetup #13

WeStream meetup #4: Life of a Movie

WeStream meetup #2: Live Sports

WeStream meetup #1