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... »

Talent is Showmax’ number one operating priority and we have large number of talented individuals in technical roles across the company. These are the folks that create, build and maintain our platform, tools and features - as well as write the posts... »