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How Ruby Can Surprise You

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How Ruby Can Surprise You

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Going to Lugano - Our Appbuilders 2019 Diary

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Network Boot To The Rescue

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Divide & Encode: How to Encode Videos Blazingly Fast

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Divide & Encode: How to Encode Videos Blazingly Fast

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Building a scalable, highly reliable, asynchronous user service

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Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat

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Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat

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PrometheusNov 6

Scraping Ethtool data into Prometheus

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Scraping Ethtool data into Prometheus

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Analyzing Network Traffic in Command Line-only Environments

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Analyzing Network Traffic in Command Line-only Environments

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Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat

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Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat

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One Small Bug For the Man, One Giant Failure For CMS

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Automated UI testing and catching visual regressions

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Automated UI testing and catching visual regressions

Automated UI testing is probably one of the most discussed - and most painful - areas in the quality assurance (QA) field. Automated UI tests of...

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Making Video-on-Demand Work for Everyone

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Making Video-on-Demand Work for Everyone

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To React Native or to Not React Native, That is the Question

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Hardening Javascript Application with Static Type Analysis

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How Showmax got into live streaming

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How Showmax got into live streaming

In the third part of the this series, we explained how we trim our live video stream, troubleshoot the process (there was a lot of that!), and a...

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How Showmax got into live streaming

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How Showmax got into live streaming

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How Showmax got into live streaming

In the first part of this series, we explained how Showmax got into the live streaming business and the problems we faced while developing our r...

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How Showmax got into live streaming

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

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Implementing GraphQL API In The Browser

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State of Deep Learning in Computer Vision

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State of Deep Learning in Computer Vision

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Waiting in Parallel - Parallel Processing in Ruby

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Introduction to the SHMAVPlayerInterface

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Setting up Spark Streaming - Part II

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SHMTableView vs. UITableViews

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Setting up Spark Streaming - Part I

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Getting ElasticSearch to Bounce Properly

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Meet Showmax’s resident Apple fanatic

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

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Getting to know Jiří Brunclík

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Machine Learning Meetup - Deep learning features and similarity of movies based on their video content

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Tracing distributed systems at Showmax

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