Here, I will introduce some of the essential architectural concepts that we use for reaching scalable, highly-concurrent, and reliable user service. The concepts introduced here are described using the example of our GDPR functionality implementation... »
This short article/how-to will show you how to solve a real issue. Our PostgreSQL logs were being stripped of trailing C-style comments containing a GDPR-relevant ID. We weren’t sure where this data was being stripped, but there were only a couple... »
A lot of people think that Ruby is a slow language and its parallelism sucks - mainly due to Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). But I want to show you that even in plain Ruby you can achieve incredible results with proper usage of parallelization. »
Weekends are when we all want to sleep in. After a long week of work, we need time to relax, take our minds off things, and recharge. So when I got the call on early Saturday morning telling me we’re sending HTTP 500 Server Error messages to our end... »
At Showmax we try to avoid doing stupid things. But we’re only human, so sometimes we make errors anyway. In this article I will show you how we make sure that mistakes are caught early and how we learn from them. Something’s fishy After we decided... »
One of the projects that CMS team is responsible for is the Showmax Catalogue API, which provides information about content metadata to end-user devices. In this series of blog posts I will, together with Vojtěch Štefka, talk about why we migrated... »