This all started with a spike in the number of errors on the Xiaomi Redmi 4A, specifically. We provide a video-on-demand service, so, when we see a massive device-wide playback failure, it’s a big deal. In this case, we had no idea what was going on... »
When you’ve done mobile development for a long time, it’s pretty easy to overlook the quality and effectiveness of your processes and development. From time to time, it’s good to take a step back and look at how you do things. Like any other company... »
You’ve probably seen your share of “Cannot read property of undefined” or “Undefined is not a function” errors in Javascript. We all have. After all, Javascript is a relatively weakly-typed language, so these things are bound to happen. But, there... »
In the third part of the this series, we explained how we trim our live video stream, troubleshoot the process (there was a lot of that!), and all of the other intricacies involved. In this post - the fourth and final in our live streaming series... »
This is the third in our series of articles about how we made a radical departure from video-on-demand to live streaming - and how we engineered the move from scratch to production in less than three months. This time, we’re focusing on video stream... »
In the first part of this series, we explained how Showmax got into the live streaming business and the problems we faced while developing our redundant setup. Now, the fun stuff - here’s a little dive into why our live encoding checker was sometimes... »
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