Our Journey with Flutter
Flutter, a relatively new cross-platform framework backed by Google, has become very popular over the last 18 months. A Quick look at the steep rise of Stack Overflow questions demonstrates how quickly Flutter has risen to prominence as a cross-platform... »
Lessons learned: Improving product Quality via Improved Continuous Integration (CI)
Here’s how we “sold” QA automation to developers and product people, and improved our release cycle. tl;dr: It’s better to have versatile teams than specialized ones We iteratively progress towards “release anything anytime” Tips for prioritizing your automation efforts How to fight flaky tests »
SmartTV - Behind the scenes
SmartTV - Behind the scenes We love modern smart TVs. CRTs are a thing of the past, now we can simply choose and install almost any application we can imagine. Showmax is one of those apps. Although they may seem like easy, plug-and-play things, they... »
vslparser - a Varnish Log Parser
We just released vslparser, a simple yet efficient parser of Varnish logs written in Go. »
Introduction to UI test automation with Ruby
Introduction Automated UI testing is a (very) oft-discussed topic within our team, and across Showmax Engineering more widely. No one likes manual, repetitive work, so we have automated UI testing for our applications that have a user-facing interface... »
Introducing Conveiro, an open source library for visualizing convolutional neural networks
Every day at Showmax, we deliver hundreds of thousands of hours of streaming movies and series to users in more than 70 countries. To make that experience as good as it can possibly be, we use a variety of machine learning tools to mine useful information... »