Empowering security researchers
With a new year come new plans and new goals. Security is always an essential topic for us at Showmax for several reasons — you can read more about that here. In this post, we discuss the many ways we work to provide high-level security for our users... »
Demuxed: What we saw
Recently, our Media Engineering team participated in the Demuxed 2020 conference for video engineers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtually for the first time, but that didn’t stop 27 renowned speakers from sharing their expertise... »
Turning a major failure into series of improvements
How a platform outage helped us enhance Showmax
Being a developer is like driving: you focus on the final destination and, to overcome obstacles, you take shortcuts or draw your own route if necessary. Debugging and solving incidents on production is a key part of our job. It takes a bit of a different... »
The Showmax Engineering story, Part I.
Here’s a rundown of the main terms we use at Showmax Engineering
Showmax delivers a top-shelf VOD service across the African continent. On top of Hollywood hits, TV series, and local telenovelas, we offer news, music and live sports. Here on the Showmax tech blog, we write about the many challenges that we encounter... »
From digital nomad to Showmax Engineering
Tomáš Kohout shares his experience
For a lot of people, digitalization and expanding high speed internet coverage has truly globalized the labor market. Remote work offers are increasing quickly — a trend that had started pre-pandemic — and binding an engineer to a fixed location is... »
My six weeks in the Showmax R&D team
Our infrastructure ages with the company, and even though we do our best to keep it current, we need to be thinking long term. There are times in a company’s growth when you need to take a long, hard look at what you’re doing and think about ways to... »