Being a developer is like driving: you focus on the final destination and, to overcome obstacles, you take shortcuts or draw your own route if necessary. Debugging and solving incidents on production is a key part of our job. It takes a bit of a different... »
A few months ago, we published a post on image processing at Showmax. It’s an interesting story about a service that had been implemented long before we actually wrote that blog post. The post sparked some debate among our colleagues, and we started... »
Here at Showmax, we use images all over our streaming platform. They can have various forms - background, hero or poster image, carousels, etc. After years of production experience with image management we have a lot to share with you, so here’s a... »
This is the second (and final) part of our blog mini-series about boosting encoding speed. In the first part we wrote about how we managed to maximize the power of our encoding farm via parallelization of the encoding pipeline. Here, we will give you... »
Here at Showmax, we’re addicted to speed and performance. In this post, I’ll go through a few techniques we used to improve the speed of our encoding pipeline, maximize the computing power of our encoders, and shortening our encoding time. When it... »
This post will take you through our journey of debugging a production issue that eventually led us to produce a new ethtool data exporter for Prometheus. We open-sourced this new exporter and it lives in our repository on Github. As always - patches... »