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Published on April 5, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Venus Najeeb
Becca Axvig
By Venus and Becca8 min readCompany

Like video, onboarding at a new company is hard. At Mux, we’ve put a lot of thought into onboarding and our goal is to have every new hire fully ramped in 90 days.

Building better docs at Mux with Next.js, Open API, Algolia and SwaggerParser

Published on March 30, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri14 min readCompany

We shipped a shiny new docs site: docs.mux.com. This is the story of why and how we did it. Today, I’m going to talk about some of the usability testing we did that led to that decision, and about how ...

Published on January 13, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl5 min readCompany

I'll admit it: I'm a video nerd. I’ve worked on video for a long time, since I first hacked together a Ruby library that wrapped ffmpeg into a basic transcoder, 12 (!) years ago. RIP, rvideo. Of cour...

Published on December 21, 2020 (almost 4 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readCompany

I know it’s a cliche, but: wow, what a year. "Hope you're staying positive and testing negative," as we've all written in about 75,000 emails. A lot happened in 2020 at Mux. Here are some highlights. ...

Remote @ Mux

Published on August 17, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl7 min readCompany

Here at Mux, we are implementing a remote-equal policy. This means that employees working in a core office aren't privileged over employees working from smaller offices or from home.

Is this a hacker?

Published on July 31, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff3 min readCompany

Today we're really excited to announce the opening of the Mux bug bounty program. Since we started Mux, we've worked hard to ensure Mux is a safe and secure environment for our customers and their vie...

developers, developers, developers

Published on July 27, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readCompany

When we use the term "developer experience," we mean our customers are the developers and we're wholly focused on building their experience. Check out our open DevEx roles!

David Byrne dancing

Published on May 4, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Steven Striegel
By Steven Striegel15 min readCompany

At Mux we spend a significant amount of effort writing blog posts. We had been dissatisfied with our blog situation for far too long and we finally decided just to design and develop our own.

Best Places to Work 2020

Published on May 4, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Becca Axvig
By Becca Axvig4 min readCompany

Mux has been named among the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in 2020. See why.

Secret Santa at Mux

Published on April 30, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl4 min readCompany

A year ago, I wrote a blog post called Now is the right time to join Mux. I want to apologize for that blog post. In it, I asserted that April of 2019 was the right time to join Mux. It turns out I was...