The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on April 30, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Online video is changing and Mux is growing
We raised some money! $100M Series D; Coatue, Accel, A16Z; several other great investors, like Cobalt, Dragoneer, and HubSpot Ventures; etc. This would have come as a bit of a surprise to me not too l...
Published on April 20, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Be the MVP of your live stream: Lessons learned from monitoring the Big Game
Maybe you’re not planning an event with millions of concurrent viewers, but our takeaways from monitoring one of the biggest sporting events of the year are applicable to live streams of all sizes.
Published on April 12, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Simulacra and Network Virtualization: Does cloud load-balancing work for long-lived TCP streams?
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 (about 4 years ago)
How Oak National Academy went from vision to virtual education in 6 days [part 1]
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 (about 4 years ago)
More control and management capabilities across Mux
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 (about 4 years ago)
Device detection is a journey, not a destination
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 (about 4 years ago)
Improved visibility into your users’ experience
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 (about 4 years ago)
Onboarding new hires from home, the office, and everywhere in between
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 (about 4 years ago)
Building better docs
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 (about 4 years ago)
Fast and accurate Clipping for VOD and live streaming
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.