The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on July 12, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Build an interactive video transcript with Mux Player CuePoints
Learn how you can associate interactive transcript metadata with your video playback to fire custom events as your video progresses.
Published on July 6, 2023 (almost 2 years 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 (almost 2 years 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 (almost 2 years 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 15, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
The engineering manager's guide for someone who really loves to code
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 (almost 2 years ago)
Q&A with Staylive: How to free up your team to do what they do best
See how Staylive, a leader in live sports streaming technology, uses Mux to white-label OTT platforms to their customers.
Published on June 5, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
Video Startup Failure: New metric in the Mux Data Monitoring Dashboard
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 (almost 2 years 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 (almost 2 years 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 May 20, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)
SCOTUS hits “skip” on Section 230
On May 18th, 2023, the court issued their decision in Gonzalez v. Google. This post breaks down what happened and explores the future of Section 230.