Maintaining a video streaming service across Africa is challenging enough, without the added pressure to secure customer data and protect our shows and movies’ security. Asking people to find ways to breach our systems can be painful, and sometimes... »
When you subscribe to a VOD service, you expect the best visual quality possible. For our customers across Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s no different. But, in a region with developing infrastructure and expensive data, OTT services like ours face an inevitable... »
The SCRIPTease podcast from Lolo.team is a great look into the world of engineering, software development, and the technical side of…everything. Jiri Brunclik, Showmax Engineering’s Head of R&D, was the first-ever guest on the podcast back in March »
We receive, process, and store A TON of video files, and we have different options when it comes to encoding. This post discusses some of the differences between hardware and software encoding, and some selected technology options for achieving the... »
Showmax is a B2C streaming video service, so we have the luxury of developing our platform directly for the customer. The obvious benefit is that we get immediate and constant feedback on our work directly from the people using it. While we know that... »
Whether you want it or not, the long term use of manual testing with in-house resources usually leads to a point where you are blind to your own bugs. Because of this, we looked for - and found - an opportunity to test our applications from the outside... »
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