The Mux Blog

Published on April 11, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

How we got critical data everywhere, all at once

By Faith Szeto • 10 min read • Engineering

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 (almost 2 years ago)

Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service

By Walker Griggs • 6 min read • Engineering

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...

Published on March 22, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Manipulate live video using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JS

By Adam Jaggard • 5 min read • Engineering

Cloud infrastructure has made streaming video content to millions of people easier than ever. However, developers looking to add live video creation into their products have limited choices. Live vide...

Published on March 8, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies

By Justin Sanford • 11 min read • Engineering

Vercel's Edge Config can come in handy in many different ways. See how we used it to cut down on the amount of spam we were dealing with from our forms.

Published on March 3, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Maximize the real estate of your Real-Time broadcasts with the Crop layout

By Phil and Wasee • 2 min read • Engineering & Product

When we announced Mux Real-Time Video, we incorporated broadcasting functionality to allow you to livestream your real-time sessions to larger audiences and to store them as on-demand videos for future...

Published on March 2, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Ksssht, over: Walkie-Talkies and WebRTC ingest signaling

By Mike English • 14 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll learn how WebRTC-HTTP ingest protocol (or WHIP) provides the convenience of RTMP while maintaining the benefits of WebRTC.

Published on January 20, 2023 (about 2 years ago)

The building blocks of great docs

By Darius Cepulis • 15 min read • Engineering

Great documentation is the backbone of a great API company. How do you scale it and keep a good experience? Learn about information architecture, Next.js 13, React Server Components, and Tailwind.

Published on January 6, 2023 (about 2 years ago)

Winamp player: now with web components

By Dave and Wietse • 11 min read • Engineering

In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.

Published on December 5, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

If you can read this, your browser captions are broken

By Gary Katsevman • 12 min read • Engineering

I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...

Published on December 1, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Developing real-time video without all the meetings

By Bobby Peck • 6 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll discover ways that you can simulate a video call with many participants–without having to invite many participants at all!