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For the last year or so, we’ve been doing UI testing for the iOS Showmax app using EarlGrey. It’s a good tool and works well, especially with regards to the visual quality of screens. »

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... »

In this second in a three part series on Sinkholing, we will dive into the details of implementation. In part one of our series on Sinkholing, we got into general ideas about how Sinkholing works, why it is needed, and how it fits into our infrastructure... »

This post will take you through our journey of debugging a production issue that eventually led us to produce a new ethtool data exporter for Prometheus. We open-sourced this new exporter and it lives in our repository on Github. As always - patches... »

This short article/how-to will show you how to solve a real issue. Our PostgreSQL logs were being stripped of trailing C-style comments containing a GDPR-relevant ID. We weren’t sure where this data was being stripped, but there were only a couple... »