The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on October 1, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it.
stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it. Read about this new free and open source project built and powered by Mux.
Published on September 21, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Timeout. Let’s try this again. Tuning timeouts and retries at scale.
Everyone knows that outages suck. We’re always learning from them. Let's dive into the details of some changes we made to our system that have helped bring us closer to our goal of a perceived 100% uptime.
Published on August 13, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Hey look, a Mux CLI
We released an early version of a CLI that we've been using internally. It makes it easier to upload local assets, along with some signing utilities, and more. We'd love to hear what you think!
Published on June 16, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)
Building TikTok: Smooth scrolling on iOS
In this post Nidhi builds a TikTok-like application on iOS. She handles user uploaded videos, merging video content with AVMutableComposition and creating a smooth scrolling with AsyncDisplayKit.
Published on May 13, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)
How ClickHouse saved our data
The Mux Data platform is used by some of the biggest broadcasters to monitor the video streaming experience of their end users. Think of it like Google Analytics or New Relic for video playback. It's a...
Published on April 14, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
The state of going live from a browser
You can watch live TV, record yourself, video chat with peers, screenshare...of course you can broadcast live RTMP streams, right? Weeelll...No, but kinda sorta with some server-side help.
Published on April 7, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
Mux is the video API for the JAMstack
Here we discuss how you can use the Mux APIs in your JAMstack and how we use the JAMstack ourselves to power our blog and Gatsby site Sanity as a headless CMS.
Published on March 2, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
How to Host Your Own Online Conference
How you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.
Published on October 15, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens
See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.
Published on October 3, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go
Mux uses Kafka and Go to perform stateful processing of millions of video views each day. Learn how we approach handling Kafka streams in Golang at scale.