Mux Blog - Video technology and more

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Published on July 19, 2023 (over 1 year 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 (over 1 year 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 (over 1 year 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.

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Published on June 30, 2023 (over 1 year 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 (over 1 year 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.

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Published on June 15, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

The engineering manager's guide for someone who really loves to code

By Dylan Jhaveri • 12 min read • Company

Am I a glutton for meetings and punishment? Or is there a way you, too, can be a full-time manager while still exercising your love for writing code?

Published on June 8, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Q&A with Staylive: How to free up your team to do what they do best

By Jamie Lonsdale • 11 min read • Customers

See how Staylive, a leader in live sports streaming technology, uses Mux to white-label OTT platforms to their customers.

A laptop showing a video player with a degraded video playing. A red error icon is overlaid on top of the video.

Published on June 5, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Video Startup Failure: New metric in the Mux Data Monitoring Dashboard

By Yushu and Walker • 2 min read • Product

Mux Data can now calculate and show Video Startup Failures in the Monitoring Dashboard. Learn more about this metric in this post.

Published on June 1, 2023 (over 1 year 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 (over 1 year 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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