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03/02/20
8 min read
How to Host Your Own Online Conference
by Dylan JhaveriHow you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.
How you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.
10/15/19
7 min read
Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens
by Dylan JhaveriSee how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.
See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.
10/03/19
12 min read
Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go
by Scott KidderLearn how Mux Data uses Kafka and Go to perform stateful processing of millions of video views each day.
Learn how Mux Data uses Kafka and Go to perform stateful processing of millions of video views each day.
06/24/19
3 min read
Abstracting Our Redux Confirmation Modal Pattern
by Matthew McClureOur 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.
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.
05/16/19
6 min read
When Good Certificates Go Bad: Monitoring for Expired TLS Certificates
by Scott KidderTLS certificates are essential to commerce, privacy, and trust on the Internet. Learn about the open-source TLS certificate expiry monitoring tool from Mux.
TLS certificates are essential to commerce, privacy, and trust on the Internet. Learn about the open-source TLS certificate expiry monitoring tool from Mux.
05/01/19
7 min read
Quantifying packaging overhead
by Matthew Szatmary 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 ...
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 ...
02/26/19
10 min read
How we improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70%
by Masroor HasanIn this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.
In this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.
02/20/19
22 min read
An adventure in OpenAPI V3 code generation
by Phil Cluff 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 ...
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 ...
02/12/19
8 min read
Multi-CDN support in Mux Video for improved performance and reliability
by Scott KidderSee why you should care about CDNs and how Mux Video automatically leverages multiple CDNs to deliver the best network performance and viewing experience.
See why you should care about CDNs and how Mux Video automatically leverages multiple CDNs to deliver the best network performance and viewing experience.
10/24/18
8 min read
Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink
by Scott KidderThis is an overview of the stream-processing system built by Mux to handle large volumes of video-streaming logs with Apache Flink and Kafka.
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.
01/12/18
7 min read
How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia
by Ben Dodson 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 ...
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 ...
12/22/17
5 min read
Using Percentiles To Identify Outliers and the Typical Experience
by Scott KidderThe most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.
The most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.
03/07/17
5 min read
Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications
by Scott KidderLearn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.
Learn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.
02/15/17
6 min read
Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink
by Scott Kidder 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 ...
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 ...
11/09/16
1 min read
Hardware encoding in containers
by Adam Brown 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 ...
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 ...
