Published on July 6, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Scaling data processing with an embedded key-value store: insights from our migration to BadgerDB
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.
Published on June 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
How to keep calm and debug smart TVs
Read a debugging journey that had us buying discontinued hardware off eBay and exhausting every possible industry contact that might have any insight.
Published on June 20, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Creating a data reporting strategy with Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, & Looker Studio
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 (over 1 year ago)
Media Chrome turns 1.0, huzzah!
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 (over 1 year ago)
SwiftUI stole the best parts of React…and my heart
SwiftUI is like the assembled Voltron of app development tools, in contrast to the rickety Frankenstein’s monster that React has become.
Published on April 21, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Simulate a live stream of a video playlist with FFmpeg
Learn how to live stream your prerecorded content as if you were broadcasting live using Mux and FFmpeg.
Published on April 17, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Experiments with AI video content strategy
You’ve created some video content! High five! …Now comes the slog. Do you have all your tweets written? Is your companion blog post ready to go? Do you have your Open Graph image designed? What about ...
Published on April 13, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates and saved $750k
If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...
Published on April 11, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
How we got critical data everywhere, all at once
There’s a common anti-pattern in engineering orgs: one team comes up with a solution, then another team builds their own despite how similar the needs are. Rinse and repeat a few times. Eventually, you...
Published on April 3, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service
Over the last year, our team has been working on a new kind of web experience. We've hinted at its development during brand events and conference talks, and we're finally ready to reveal it on the ma...