Preventing memory leak when not dismissing modally-presented UIViewController in iOS
For the last year or so, we’ve been doing UI testing for the iOS Showmax app using EarlGrey. It’s a good tool and works well, especially with regards to the visual quality of screens. »
Divide & Encode: How to Encode Videos Blazingly Fast
Part I - Need For Speed
Here at Showmax, we’re addicted to speed and performance. In this post, I’ll go through a few techniques we used to improve the speed of our encoding pipeline, maximize the computing power of our encoders, and shortening our encoding time. When it... »
Building a scalable, highly reliable, asynchronous user service
Here, I will introduce some of the essential architectural concepts that we use for reaching scalable, highly-concurrent, and reliable user service. The concepts introduced here are described using the example of our GDPR functionality implementation... »
Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat
Part II - Implementation
In this second in a three part series on Sinkholing, we will dive into the details of implementation. In part one of our series on Sinkholing, we got into general ideas about how Sinkholing works, why it is needed, and how it fits into our infrastructure... »
Scraping Ethtool data into Prometheus
This post will take you through our journey of debugging a production issue that eventually led us to produce a new ethtool data exporter for Prometheus. We open-sourced this new exporter and it lives in our repository on Github. As always - patches... »
Analyzing Network Traffic in Command Line-only Environments
This short article/how-to will show you how to solve a real issue. Our PostgreSQL logs were being stripped of trailing C-style comments containing a GDPR-relevant ID. We weren’t sure where this data was being stripped, but there were only a couple... »