Showmax delivers a top-shelf VOD service across the African continent. On top of Hollywood hits, TV series, and local telenovelas, we offer news, music and live sports. Here on the Showmax tech blog, we write about the many challenges that we encounter... »
For a lot of people, digitalization and expanding high speed internet coverage has truly globalized the labor market. Remote work offers are increasing quickly — a trend that had started pre-pandemic — and binding an engineer to a fixed location is... »
Our infrastructure ages with the company, and even though we do our best to keep it current, we need to be thinking long term. There are times in a company’s growth when you need to take a long, hard look at what you’re doing and think about ways to... »
Daniel Valčík is one of Showmax’s longest-serving designers. He worked on the first designs for the platform, and he sets the tone for the team’s UX-first approach. We sat down with Daniel to discuss how his team approaches creative design and innovation... »
We’ve already documented how (occasionally) painful it can be to develop for Samsung Tizen devices. We want to be fair, so here’s a follow-up about developing for LG WebOS. Fortunately, LG has slightly better tooling than Samsung, so we don’t have... »
This August, we at Showmax are celebrating 5 years of delivering streaming video on demand on the African continent from our engineering centers in Prague and Beroun, Czech Republic. At first glance, it may seem like an over-complication; a tech hub... »
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