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One Small Bug For Man, One Giant Failure For CMS-kind

This is a tale of several small issues turning into an absolute clusterf^@k. It’s never just the one bug that causes a catastrophe, it’s always a synergy of multiple small issues - small issues that are so stupid, and so easy to overlook, that it’s... »

Jan Špitálník Jan Špitálník on python, python3, elasticsearch, postmortem 26 September 2018

Looking for a Django Admin Page Lock? We've got you covered

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... »

Vojtěch Štefka Vojtěch Štefka on python, django 06 February 2018

Getting ElasticSearch to Bounce Properly

Weekends are when we all want to sleep in. After a long week of work, we need time to relax, take our minds off things, and recharge. So when I got the call on early Saturday morning telling me we’re sending HTTP 500 Server Error messages to our end... »

Jiří Brunclík Jiří Brunclík on backend, ops, python, elasticsearch 15 February 2017

Migrating Showmax Catalogue API from Django to Falcon - Part II (Learning from mistakes)

At Showmax we try to avoid doing stupid things. But we’re only human, so sometimes we make errors anyway. In this article I will show you how we make sure that mistakes are caught early and how we learn from them. Something’s fishy After we decided... »

Jiří Brunclík Jiří Brunclík on backend, python 28 November 2016

Migrating Showmax Catalogue API from Django to Falcon - Part I

One of the projects that CMS team is responsible for is the Showmax Catalogue API, which provides information about content metadata to end-user devices. In this series of blog posts I will, together with Vojtěch Štefka, talk about why we migrated... »

Jiří Brunclík Jiří Brunclík on backend, python 19 September 2016
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