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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »