The Mux Blog

Published on February 12, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)

Multi-CDN support in Mux Video for improved performance and reliability

By Scott Kidder • 10 min read • Engineering

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

Published on October 24, 2018 (about 6 years ago)

Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink

By Scott Kidder • 9 min read • Engineering

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.

Published on October 8, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Real-time dashboards powered by Elixir

By Jacqui Manzi • 14 min read • Engineering

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 a...

Published on January 12, 2018 (about 7 years ago)

How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia

By Ben Dodson • 8 min read • Engineering

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 s...

Published on December 22, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Using Percentiles To Identify Outliers and the Typical Experience

By Scott Kidder • 6 min read • Engineering

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

Published on March 7, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications

By Scott Kidder • 6 min read • Engineering

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

Published on February 15, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink

By Scott Kidder • 7 min read • Engineering

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 rea...

Published on November 9, 2016 (about 8 years ago)

Hardware encoding in containers

By Adam Brown • 1 min read • Engineering

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 chips...