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Published on January 12, 2018 (about 7 years ago)

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson8 min readEngineering

For the past three months, half of us at Mux have been obsessed with HQ Trivia, while the other half silently regretted their Android purchases. When that HQ push notification hits at 12, the iPhones s...

Using Percentiles To Identify Outliers and the Typical Experience

Published on December 22, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder6 min readEngineering

The most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.

Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming

Published on November 14, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl4 min readProduct

Online video is growing exponentially, but still it's too hard to stream video. Video is too hard (as we discussed last week). Every area of video infrastructure - encoding, playback, delivery, workfl...

Video is too hard.

Published on November 10, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readVideo education

Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish v...

Announcing full data exports

Published on November 1, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readProduct

A quality of experience analytics platform like Mux does three things. Accurately measure what happens when someone watches a video, across different platforms and devices. Collect those measurements...

Published on October 24, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick7 min readVideo education

Here at Mux, we’re always trying to make sure we build products that make our customers better able to understand their video, and how to improve it. One of the common questions we get is how folks can...

Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis

Published on August 31, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readProduct

Video publishing sometimes feels like a Rube Goldberg machine. To get a single video to play back successfully, a dozen different systems need to play nicely together: websites, players, browsers, ISPs...

Video View Page Revisited

Published on August 25, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Jacqui Manzi
By Jacqui Manzi4 min readProduct

We recently redesigned our aggregate metric charts and decided to take another look at how we help customers make sense of individual video views. Previously, the top portion of our video view page br...

Published on August 21, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder2 min readProduct

In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.

It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API

Published on July 26, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure3 min readProduct

We're proud to call ourselves a developer-focused company. We want developers to want to use our products and actually enjoy it when they do. When we build new features or tools, we want the person tha...