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Get going with Mux Go!

Published on May 8, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff1 min readProduct

We write a lot of Go at Mux… seriously, a lot of Go. Why? Well, Go is a great systems level language for building reliable, low level software, while still being flexible enough to build high level, sc...

Quantifying packaging overhead

Published on May 1, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Matthew Szatmary
By Matthew Szatmary7 min readEngineering

Mux makes adding video to your app or website as easy as making a single API call. But behind the scenes is a large multistep process to analyze and transform the video into something that can be easil...

Introducing Mux Ruby

Published on April 18, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff1 min readProduct

Ruby is a great language to write scripts, tests, websites, and software stacks.

Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now

Published on April 16, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure7 min readVideo education

With ZEIT’s Now, we can easily build applications that interact with our Airtable database's API. We can wire them all together and build our own video CMS.

Now is the right time to join Mux

Published on April 3, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readCompany

Mux is hiring for a number of positions right now - everything from engineering to sales to customer success. We're hiring because Mux is growing. We tripled the business in 2018, and think we might a...

Get to the root cause (even) faster with new real-time metric breakdowns

Published on April 2, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readProduct

We’re introducing a new metrics page that provides a deeper level of data to help you resolve streaming issues even faster.

Is it recording yet? New Live Stream Webhook Events!

Published on April 1, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan3 min readProduct

We just added a few new events to Mux's Live Streams that let you build more helpful UIs for streamers and help debug issues when they happen. These include: CONNECTED (video.live_stream.connected) - ...

Did Sisvel just catch AOM with their patents down?

Published on March 28, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff8 min readVideo news

On Wednesday, Sisvel International S.A. announced two new patent pools, one for the VP9 video codec and one for the AV1 video codec. These new patent pools cover "consumer display devices" and "consume...

Streaming video on the internet without MPEG

Published on March 14, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff22 min readVideo news

Authors Notes: This article is based on a set of experiments I developed while investigating the feasibility of building a premium video experience using only royalty free video streaming technologies,...

How we improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70%

Published on February 26, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Masroor Hasan
By Masroor Hasan13 min readEngineering

In this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.