Mux Blog - Video technology and more

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Published on August 24, 2023 (8 months ago)

Cloud encoding APIs are a dying breed: lessons learned from building three cloud video startups

By Steve Heffernan • 8 min read • Engineering

It's becoming increasingly clear that cloud encoding APIs are on their way out. Read our perspective on where cloud video encoding is headed.

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Published on August 21, 2023 (8 months ago)

Service workers are underrated, and building media proxies proves it

By Matthew McClure • 12 min read • Engineering

Service workers have so much potential. Let's explore building a media proxy as a service worker that can run in your browser or in the cloud.

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Published on August 10, 2023 (9 months ago)

Can React Server Actions finally fix forms?

By Darius Cepulis • 9 min read • Engineering

React Server Actions offer a way of simplifying posting data to the server by calling a simple function instead. But do they live up to the promise?

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Published on July 19, 2023 (10 months ago)

Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components

By Darius Cepulis • 20 min read • Engineering

Server Components run on the server instead of the client, giving you control over your bundle size and data fetching. Here’s everything we learned about them.

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Published on July 12, 2023 (10 months ago)

Build an interactive video transcript with Mux Player CuePoints

By Christian Pillsbury • 10 min read • Engineering

Learn how you can associate interactive transcript metadata with your video playback to fire custom events as your video progresses.

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Published on July 6, 2023 (10 months ago)

Scaling data processing with an embedded key-value store: insights from our migration to BadgerDB

By Scott Kidder • 13 min read • Engineering

Learn how Mux migrated from a shared, distributed Riak key-value (KV) store to the BadgerDB embedded KV store and the massive benefits it brought us.

An illustration of a beetle displaying on a smart TV. A purple cord is plugged in to the TV and winds its way around the beetle.

Published on June 30, 2023 (10 months ago)

How to keep calm and debug smart TVs

By Edwin, Grady, and Alex • 13 min read • Engineering

Read a debugging journey that had us buying discontinued hardware off eBay and exhausting every possible industry contact that might have any insight.

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Published on June 20, 2023 (11 months ago)

Creating a data reporting strategy with Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, & Looker Studio

By Richard Headon • 7 min read • Engineering

In this walkthrough, you'll learn how to export your video viewing data from Mux into Google BigQuery for analysis with Looker Studio.

Published on June 1, 2023 (11 months ago)

Media Chrome turns 1.0, huzzah!

By Steve Heffernan • 9 min read • Engineering, Product, & Video news

Media Chrome, the set of web components for video and audio players is now version 1.0. While it was production ready before, now we promise it is.

Published on May 30, 2023 (11 months ago)

SwiftUI stole the best parts of React…and my heart

By Liam Lindner • 6 min read • Engineering

SwiftUI is like the assembled Voltron of app development tools, in contrast to the rickety Frankenstein’s monster that React has become.

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