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... »
Flutter, a relatively new cross-platform framework backed by Google, has become very popular over the last 18 months. A Quick look at the steep rise of Stack Overflow questions demonstrates how quickly Flutter has risen to prominence as a cross-platform... »
Here’s how we “sold” QA automation to developers and product people, and improved our release cycle. tl;dr: It’s better to have versatile teams than specialized ones We iteratively progress towards “release anything anytime” Tips for prioritizing your automation efforts How to fight flaky tests »
SmartTV - Behind the scenes We love modern smart TVs. CRTs are a thing of the past, now we can simply choose and install almost any application we can imagine. Showmax is one of those apps. Although they may seem like easy, plug-and-play things, they... »
Introduction Automated UI testing is a (very) oft-discussed topic within our team, and across Showmax Engineering more widely. No one likes manual, repetitive work, so we have automated UI testing for our applications that have a user-facing interface... »
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