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Live streaming with React Native

Published on December 8, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña5 min readEngineering

So... You've decided to introduce mobile live streaming to your React Native app. This is wonderful and if you are using Mux this is especially great because getting set up and running is extremely...

Published on December 4, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Ed Ropple
By Ed Ropple6 min readProduct

The Internet is not always the most reliable thing in the world, and live streaming inherits a lot of that. When running a live event, production teams often have to take into account the vagaries of w...

Published on December 2, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Ed Ropple
By Ed Ropple19 min readEvents

This is going to be the second blog post I've made with this observation, but: COVID is weird. And while it's not one of the biggest ways COVID has turned over our collective applecart, it has now been...

Published on November 23, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons5 min readProduct

Earlier this year, we undertook a big project to replace the data backend Mux Data uses for our metrics, views, and errors. It was a “replacing the engines on the airplane while flying” project and lar...

Published on November 17, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Josh Allmann
By Josh Allmann4 min readEngineering

*This is part II in the journey Mux software developer Josh Allmann had with creating Storyboards. Check out the product announcement here! On making Storyboards fast On a personal note, this was my...

Announcing the launch of Storyboards with the Mux Video API

Published on November 11, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Josh Allmann
By Josh Allmann4 min readProduct

Announcement of Storyboards with the Mux Video API

The Giraffe was a dare

Published on November 5, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña8 min readVideo education

One of the more common questions we're asked is how to implement video uploads to Mux. While it'll seem straightforward once explained, there are some considerations that should be taken into account....

Published on November 2, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Ed Ropple
By Ed Ropple17 min readVideo education

Hey, folks! Apologies for the delay in getting this out; turns out Demuxed took a tiny bit of work to pull off! Thank you, of course, to our team--would you call them our fantastic team, Phil?--working...

Ed's "I am a software developer and also a video producer" desk setup. It has never been orderly, not once.

Published on October 13, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Ed Ropple
By Ed Ropple18 min readVideo education

Breaking news: working during COVID has been weird. For folks like yours truly who are holding down an office job, this means a lot of time in the teleconference mines. On one hand, some people (hi) l...

Threshold Alerting Blog

Published on October 8, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons6 min readProduct

When Mux adds new features to any of its products, we try hard to make sure that the feature is easy to use and valuable by default. This led us to develop our existing anomaly-detection-based alerting...