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... »
We decided to implement authentication offloading in Varnish - later realizing that this had been a significant performance bottleneck. Here, we go through the “why” and “how” we did what we did, and how we changed the offloading implementation to... »
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... »
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... »