Showmax Engineering Blog

In the third part of the this series, we explained how we trim our live video stream, troubleshoot the process (there was a lot of that!), and all of the other intricacies involved. In this post - the fourth and final in our live streaming series... »

This is the third in our series of articles about how we made a radical departure from video-on-demand to live streaming - and how we engineered the move from scratch to production in less than three months. This time, we’re focusing on video stream... »

In the first part of this series, we explained how Showmax got into the live streaming business and the problems we faced while developing our redundant setup. Now, the fun stuff - here’s a little dive into why our live encoding checker was sometimes... »

This is the first in a series of articles about how Showmax made a radical departure from its video-on-demand roots and took a live streaming platform from scratch to production in less than three months. In particular, we’ll share some of the key... »

One of the main projects that my team is responsible for is Showmax’s CMS (Content Management System), where we manage content metadata for our streaming platform through their browsers. The CMS is used by multiple users in five different countries... »

This September, I gave a talk at WebExpo Prague explaining why and how we used GraphQL to reduce data fetching and improve the UI of the Showmax Video on Demand platform. I’ve put together some more technical details in this article so you can try... »