The Mux Blog

Published on April 12, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Simulacra and Network Virtualization: Does cloud load-balancing work for long-lived TCP streams?

By Dmitry Ilyevsky • 13 min read • Engineering

While hunting for a pesky live streaming bug, we discovered that virtual load balancers don’t always simulate their physical counterparts the way you might expect.

Published on April 8, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

How Oak National Academy went from vision to virtual education in 6 days [part 1]

By Lynnette and Phil • 14 min read • Customers

Oak National Academy started with a mission to educate virtually in lockdown. 100 million lessons later, they’re providing zero-rated education. Learn about their launch and approach to accessibility.

Published on April 7, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

More control and management capabilities across Mux

By Bonnie Pecevich • 1 min read • Product

We’re excited to give all Mux customers an additional layer of control to manage their accounts with Multi-Organization User Access.

Published on April 6, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Device detection is a journey, not a destination

By Steven Lyons • 10 min read • Engineering

There are multiple analytics products that use device detection for reporting. How hard could it be? Just throw the user agent at a device detection library and off you go. Nope, wrong.

Published on April 6, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Improved visibility into your users’ experience

By Bonnie Pecevich • 1 min read • Product

To help you better improve the quality of your viewers’ experience and diagnose and debug issues, we’ve improved device detection to be more accurate. Because video experiences can vary widely by devic...

Published on April 5, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Onboarding new hires from home, the office, and everywhere in between

By Venus and Becca • 8 min read • Company

Like video, onboarding at a new company is hard. At Mux, we’ve put a lot of thought into onboarding and our goal is to have every new hire fully ramped in 90 days.

Published on March 30, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Building better docs

By Dylan Jhaveri • 14 min read • Company

We shipped a shiny new docs site: docs.mux.com. This is the story of why and how we did it. Today, I’m going to talk about some of the usability testing we did that led to that decision, and about how ...

Published on March 16, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Fast and accurate Clipping for VOD and live streaming

By Bonnie and Josh • 4 min read • Product

Announcing our most requested feature, Clipping. It creates clips that are available immediately and gives the ability to select the exact time to begin and end the clip.

Published on March 15, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

In The Beginning There Was Static: A Brief History of Video, Pt. 1

By Ed Ropple • 16 min read • Video education

A discussion about seventy-five years of history in the video space, from around 1927 to 2003, up until the rise of H.264

Published on March 1, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

TV.gov: A 10-point plan for how to build a direct, two-way streaming community

By Eric Elia • 6 min read • Partnerships

As innovators in the streaming video industry, we’d like to see a robust video strategy that gives the new administration control not only of stories, but also of the distribution.