The Mux Blog

Published on November 4, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Finding your way in the Jamstack forest

By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Engineering

At the risk of sounding like an old man, I can barely keep up with the JavaScript landscape. Between server components, islands architecture, incremental static regeneration, code optimization, and the...

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

How we made Mux Player’s loading feel great

By Darius Cepulis • 6 min read • Engineering

With lazy-loading and a blurhash placeholder, we make the loading experience of Mux Player feel great in our Next.js app

Published on October 25, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Using Mux Player to Add Videos to my Next.js Blog

By Liam Lindner • 4 min read • Engineering

In this post, I'll show you the simple steps to embed a video in your Next.js blog or website by using the newest player package from Mux.

Published on October 19, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components

By Dylan Jhaveri • 13 min read • Engineering

There have been a lot of hot takes and chatter flying around the interwebs about web components over the last few months. We read a lot of it, but the day-to-day 280-character hot takes on Twitter are ...

Published on July 27, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

HTML, the Hero of the Web

By Wesley Luyten • 6 min read • Engineering

Here at Mux, we want to empower our users to make the most of our platform. Using web components to build out our Mux elements collection seemed like the most developer-friendly way to do that.

Published on July 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

@mux-elements are getting a new (old) home on npm: @mux!

By Christian Pillsbury • 8 min read • Engineering

All of our Mux Elements are moving from @mux-elements to @mux on npm. In this post, we explain why and introduce some steps we took and tools we built to help with your migration.

Published on June 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Staying up to date and organized with our Postman collection of API requests

By Thuy Doan • 2 min read • Engineering

Mux users can now easily interact with our API via our officially supported Postman collection. Once forked, your collection stays up to date with Mux's API changes.

Published on May 18, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Saving video playback progress in your application

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Engineering

In this article, you'll learn how to keep track of video playback progress by building recallable video playback into your application.

Published on April 18, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

Envoy as a service-to-service proxy

By David Mather • 10 min read • Engineering

This miniseries will talk about some of Mux's usage of Envoy networking proxy within our Kubernetes clusters.

Published on April 5, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

The skater punk’s guide to MediaRecorder

By Dave Kiss • 11 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll be introduced to the MediaRecorder API and learn how it's not so different from operating a video camera IRL.