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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 (over 4 years ago)

Zoom Like You Mean It, Pt. I: Audio Gear

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)

Monitor Viewer Experience Problems with new Customizable Alerts

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...

Mux + Strapi.io

Published on October 7, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

New Integration Announcement: Strapi CMS

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña4 min readProduct

Enabling upload of video content to Mux through Strapi CMS so that custom collection types can be tied to assets for a holistic metadata model.

stream.new logo

Published on October 1, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it.

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri4 min readEngineering

stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it. Read about this new free and open source project built and powered by Mux.

Mux OneGraph GraphQL

Published on September 25, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Mux API: With GraphQL Powered by OneGraph

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri3 min readProduct

Mux Video API can now be used with GraphQL (powered by OneGraph).

Timeout. Let’s try this again. Tuning timeouts and retries at scale.

Published on September 21, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Timeout. Let’s try this again. Tuning timeouts and retries at scale.

Matt Ward
By Matt Ward10 min readEngineering

Everyone knows that outages suck. We’re always learning from them. Let's dive into the details of some changes we made to our system that have helped bring us closer to our goal of a perceived 100% uptime.

A screenshot showing a failed CDN request

Published on September 10, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff4 min readProduct

Learn how you can use Mux's Redundant Streams feature to make your events more resilient to larger, internet wide service outages, such as CDN failures.

Current Average Bitrate

Published on August 20, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons6 min readProduct

One of the important factors in viewing experience is the bitrate that is played on a device. Mux Data now provides a few different ways to view bitrate data collected from viewer streams.

Remote @ Mux

Published on August 17, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

Remote @ Mux

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl7 min readCompany

Here at Mux, we are implementing a remote-equal policy. This means that employees working in a core office aren't privileged over employees working from smaller offices or from home.

A screenshot of a terminal using the CLI

Published on August 13, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

Hey look, a Mux CLI

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure2 min readEngineering

We released an early version of a CLI that we've been using internally. It makes it easier to upload local assets, along with some signing utilities, and more. We'd love to hear what you think!