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 June 22, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Traversing the First Mile: Considerations for Live Streaming Ingest
Regardless of how you choose to do it, getting your video into a platform requires consideration. But what should you consider to ingest live video well? Here’s our top 3 areas for consideration.
Published on June 16, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Building TikTok: Smooth scrolling on iOS
In this post Nidhi builds a TikTok-like application on iOS. She handles user uploaded videos, merging video content with AVMutableComposition and creating a smooth scrolling with AsyncDisplayKit.
Published on May 19, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
6 Ways to Monetize Video
After hundreds of conversations on how to best monetize video, we wrote a post that covers some of the top monetization strategies to build a profitable business around video.
Published on May 13, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
How ClickHouse saved our data
The Mux Data platform is used by some of the biggest broadcasters to monitor the video streaming experience of their end users. Think of it like Google Analytics or New Relic for video playback. It's a...
Published on May 11, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Access to all your data via the Real-Time Dashboard API
We know a single interface is an important part of customers’ monitoring infrastructure so we wanted to make it easy to use existing tools but still have access to the low-latency, real-time metrics.
Published on May 11, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Reporting Flexibility with New Advanced Filtering
With advanced filtering, Mux Data has the reporting flexibility to match the complexity of the issues you're trying to resolve.
Published on May 7, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
What is Video Observability?
An observable system allows the operator to infer the functioning of a system with just knowledge of its outputs. “Video Observability” describes the monitoring of complex video streaming platforms.
Published on May 4, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Let's just design our own corporate blog
At Mux we spend a significant amount of effort writing blog posts. We had been dissatisfied with our blog situation for far too long and we finally decided just to design and develop our own.
Published on May 4, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Mux named one of the Best Places to Work
Mux has been named among the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in 2020. See why.
Published on April 30, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Actually, now is the time to join Mux
A year ago, I wrote a blog post called Now is the right time to join Mux. I want to apologize for that blog post. In it, I asserted that April of 2019 was the right time to join Mux. It turns out I was...