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.

Lee Robinson on a background that shows the Vercel Marketplace

Published on January 16, 2025 (5 days ago)

Reducing friction with video through Vercel Marketplace's integration with Mux

By Dave and Staci • 23 min read • Partnerships & Engineering

Lee Robinson chats with Mux about the new Vercel Marketplace, the role of AI in the developer experience, and tips for aspiring content creators.

Published on January 16, 2025 (5 days ago)

Mux’s high-performance video now in the Vercel Marketplace

By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Engineering

Integrating high-performance video into Vercel applications is easier than ever with Mux's new Vercel Marketplace app.

Published on December 18, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

How we use ClickHouse as a real-time stream processing engine

By Faith and Josh • 18 min read • Engineering

At Mux, we replaced Flink and Postgres with ClickHouse to handle real-time stream processing. Here's how we scale and simplify our video architecture.

A photo of Kafka is layered on top of some Clickhouse code. There's a stopwatch in the bottom right hand corner. The composition seems to be suggesting an introduction of some latency.

Published on November 26, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

How we cut ClickHouse latency from 12s to 2s

By Nidhi Kulkarni • 12 min read • Engineering

Here's how we identified and fixed a performance bottleneck in our ClickHouse cluster during the ingestion of high-volume real-time data through Kafka.

A dark gray rectangular badge with rounded corners that reads "Powered by Mux" in uppercase letters. The text is light gray, and the word "Mux" is bolder and slightly larger than the rest. The badge has a subtle outline, giving it a modern and sleek appearance.

Published on November 6, 2024 (3 months ago)

Powered by Mux: Get credits for your developer video content

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Engineering

Get Mux credits for serving your developer video content with Mux. In this post, learn about our new Powered by Mux program and how it works.

A person holding a skateboard with various tech-related stickers on it. The skateboard features the Mux and Laravel logos prominently, along with other stickers such as "JS" and a smiley face. The person's hands, colored in pink, are gripping the board, and they are dressed in a black outfit with a purple shirt. The background consists of a grid-like pattern.

Published on September 6, 2024 (5 months ago)

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript

By Dave Kiss • 9 min read • Engineering

What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.

A deeply confused, yet well-intentioned robot, throwing up his arms in confusion

Published on September 6, 2024 (5 months ago)

AI chatbots are banned from our docs… for now

By Darius Cepulis • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

We can learn a lot about the current state of large language models by talking about why we chose not to use an AI chatbot on our documentation site.

Published on August 15, 2024 (5 months ago)

Level up your video experience with these AI example workflows

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Engineering • AI

Examples of how to use Mux with AI tools like OpenAI and Claude3 to generate video chapters, translation and dubbing and summarization and tagging.

A player showing a video of two people talking. The people are labeled with their names, Matt and Nick. Below the player, a graphical representation of a transcript.

Published on August 15, 2024 (5 months ago)

Build an AI-powered interactive video transcript with Mux Player CuePoints

By Darius Cepulis • 11 min read • Engineering • AI

Build an interactive transcript with Mux Player CuePoints and AI. Use AI for caption generation, Speaker diarization (identification), and text formatting.

An image depicting 6-week cycles in a timeline view

Published on June 27, 2024 (7 months ago)

How Mux increased engineering velocity by 50%

By Ryan Grothouse • 11 min read • Company & Engineering

Dive into how 6-week planning cycles helped Mux increase engineering velocity and quickly ship major product upgrades like 4K, AI-generated captions, and more.

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