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... »
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... »
Network Boot To The Rescue
Having a physical infrastructure spread across continents presents you with non-trivial challenges when it comes to maintenance. It’s not always possible to boot your server from a USB stick or even that ancient spinning optical media technology, and... »
Reliable, Distributed Locking in the Cloud
Why Distributed Mutexes? When multiple threads of execution are trying to modify a single shared resource - be it a file or the result of a computation - consistency can be compromised unless proper synchronization of the threads is guaranteed. A... »
Consistent Ruby environment for iOS development
As is the case with most iOS developers, we rely on certain third-party libraries that help us do better stuff with iOS development, deployment to the App Store, and running automated tests via a continuous integration server. When working in larger... »