If you’ve ever worked with AVPlayer you probably encountered a few tricky concepts, namely KVO, CMTime and Media Groups. In this blog post we give some tips and explanations on how best to work with AVPlayer using SHMAVPlayerInterface. »

In this blog, I’m going to show you how I reduced batch processing time from something over 126 seconds, to just 17 seconds. You may want to read Part 1 of this blog, where I wrote about some of the challenges we had integrating Spark Streaming into... »

In the previous article we introduced the SHMTableView library. What we’d now like to do is make a practical comparison between two different approaches to implementing tables with multiple cell types. »

Analysing customer usage data on a streaming basis promised Showmax a significant improvement compared to a cumbersome batch approach. Setting this up using Spark Streaming, however, has proven far more challenging than we expected. At Showmax we... »

The Showmax iOS team has released the SHMTableView library, a wrapper for UITableView data sources. With this nifty little tool, you can maximize your iOS application’s UX while minimizing boilerplate. SHMTableView is a wrapper around your UITableView »

Weekends are when we all want to sleep in. After a long week of work, we need time to relax, take our minds off things, and recharge. So when I got the call on early Saturday morning telling me we’re sending HTTP 500 Server Error messages to our end... »