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An AI-generated photo of an automaton using a Wacom tablet at a dimly-lit desk in a dusty workshop

Published on April 17, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Experiments with AI video content strategy

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss8 min readEngineeringAI

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 (almost 2 years ago)

We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates and saved $750k

Mark Franceschini
By Mark Franceschini8 min readEngineeringStream security

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 (almost 2 years ago)

How we got critical data everywhere, all at once

Faith Szeto
By Faith Szeto10 min readEngineering

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...

A laptop showing an abstract representation of a Youtube-like webpage and a magnifying glass with red exclamation marks

Published on April 6, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Up next: the lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue

Victoria Nemiah
By Victoria Nemiah9 min readVideo news

How the Wolf of Wall Street almost killed the internet Back in the 1990s, a lot was going on. While we were learning to do the Macarena and struggling to keep our Tamagotchis alive, the internet was s...

Image of Mux's logo plus Akamai's logo

Published on April 4, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons16 min readProduct

Using CMCD with Mux Data and Akamai, tie your viewer’s quality of experience analytics together with CDN performance logs to achieve end-to-end visibility.

Web inputs diagram showing web inputs to headless Chrome running XVFB + PULS + FFMPEG with a live stream output

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

Lessons learned building headless chrome as a service

Walker Griggs
By Walker Griggs6 min readEngineering

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

Adam Jaggard
By Adam Jaggard5 min readEngineering

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...

An AI generated render of a futuristic shield

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

Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford11 min readEngineering

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 (about 2 years ago)

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

Phil Cluff
Wasee Malik
By Phil and Wasee2 min readEngineering & 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...

An illustration of two walkie-talkie handheld radios communicating with each other

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

Ksssht, over: Walkie-Talkies and WebRTC ingest signaling

Mike English
By Mike English14 min readEngineering

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