This blogpost is essentially a 1:1 copy of our internal how-to on the basics of Prometheus. While it’s relatively common for developers to hear ... | Continue reading
A few months ago, we published a post on image processing at Showmax. It’s an interesting story about a service that had been implemented long b... | Continue reading
In the Showmax Backend team, Ruby is our preferred language. So, when we interview people for jobs and they say they know Ruby, we tend to chat ... | Continue reading
We decided to implement authentication offloading in Varnish - later realizing that this had been a significant performance bottleneck. Here, we... | Continue reading
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 ... | Continue reading
Having a physical infrastructure spread across continents presents you with non-trivial challenges when it comes to maintenance. It’s not always... | Continue reading
This is the second (and final) part of our blog mini-series about boosting encoding speed. In the first part we wrote about how we managed to ma... | Continue reading
This is the first in an three part series on sinkholing, targeted attacks, and how to defend your platform. As our user base (and our popularit... | Continue reading