We’re a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

Read how Mux has used Flink over the course of 5 years, lessons learned, and future improvements.

Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)

Learn how to use Kafka transactions to accurately process CDN logs at scale.

There appears to be a bug in Mobile Safari’s default HLS implementation when it comes to looping short-form videos.

In this post, we walk through how to persist audio in your iOS app when the application goes into the background.

Maybe you’re not planning an event with millions of concurrent viewers, but our takeaways from monitoring one of the biggest sporting events of the year are applicable to live streams of all sizes.

While hunting for a pesky live streaming bug, we discovered that virtual load balancers don’t always simulate their physical counterparts the way you might expect.

There are multiple analytics products that use device detection for reporting. How hard could it be? Just throw the user agent at a device detection library and off you go. Nope, wrong.

Mux Data tracks key insights about your videos. Learn how to make graphs using data from the Mux Data API and present these insights in a React application.

Kafka Connect is a powerful tool for moving data in and out of Apache Kafka clusters. Learn how Mux uses Kafka Connect to power real-time exports, as well as lessons we've developed along the way.

So... You've decided to introduce mobile live streaming to your React Native app. This is wonderful and if you are using Mux this is especially great because getting set up and running is extremely ...

*This is part II in the journey Mux software developer Josh Allmann had with creating Storyboards. Check out the product announcement here ! On making Storyboards fast On a personal note, this was m ...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

How you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.

See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.

Learn how Mux Data uses Kafka and Go to perform stateful processing of millions of video views each day.

Our Redux store was getting littered with confirmation-modal specific actions. Enter the first Redux Sagas pattern that felt like it was helping to simplify a difficult problem in our application.

TLS certificates are essential to commerce, privacy, and trust on the Internet. Learn about the open-source TLS certificate expiry monitoring tool from Mux.

Mux makes adding video to your app or website as easy as making a single API call. But behind the scenes is a large multistep process to analyze and transform the video into something that can be eas ...

In this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.

One of our aims at Mux is to make it easy for every developer to create great video experiences in their apps. To help you build new apps, we're building more SDKs for a wider variety of languages th ...

See why you should care about CDNs and how Mux Video automatically leverages multiple CDNs to deliver the best network performance and viewing experience.

This is an overview of the stream-processing system built by Mux to handle large volumes of video-streaming logs with Apache Flink and Kafka.

Using Erlang’s OTP and Phoenix’s Channel / Presence to manage large real-time data sets across many channel topics Our real-time analytics product requires a scalable system with high availability an ...

For the past three months, half of us at Mux have been obsessed with HQ Trivia, while the other half silently regretted their Android purchases. When that HQ push notification hits at 12, the iPhones ...

The most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.

Learn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.

Mux receives a continuous stream of video-view event data, every second of every day. Some of these views indicate errors during the delivery or playback of video. How can we detect error spikes in r ...

The Demuxed conference was recently kind enough to invite me speak about hardware video encoding in the cloud. Hardware vendors have been hard at work recently releasing updates to their encoding ch ...