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We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

Mux at Flink Forward SF 2017

Published on March 21, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

Mux at Flink Forward SF 2017

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder0 min readEvents

Mux will be attending the Flink Forward SF conference on April 11, 2017 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. Scott Kidder from Mux will be speaking at Flink Forward on our Flink-powered real-time ano...

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Published on March 14, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Although Video Startup Time sounds like a simple metric it is vital to understand, but elusive to measure. Here at Mux we know our metrics.

Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications

Published on March 7, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder6 min readEngineering

Learn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.

Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink

Published on February 15, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder7 min readEngineering

Mux receives a continuous stream of video-view event data, every second of every day. Some of these views indicate errors during the delivery or playback of video. How can we detect error spikes in rea...

Published on February 11, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

New Dimension - ASNs (What are those?)

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford2 min readProduct

Here at Mux, we're working hard at providing valuable insight* into your viewer's experience. One of the ways we do this is with specific dimensions, such as browser, operating system, and country (amo...

Published on January 20, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

Announcing Alerting

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure3 min readProduct

One of the core beliefs we have at Mux is that everything we do should help customers improve their platform and viewer experience. We help them understand the overall health of their video delivery pl...

Mux at AWS re:Invent 2016

Published on November 21, 2016 (over 8 years ago)

Mux at AWS re:Invent 2016

Lauren White
By Lauren White1 min readEvents

Mux will be attending AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas from November 29-Dec 2, 2016. Folks from our team will be available to meet and demo our video performance analytics platform. We recently launched new...

What's new: metric comparisons and global scores

Published on November 15, 2016 (over 8 years ago)

What's new: metric comparisons and global scores

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readProduct

We've shipped two new features at Mux over the last two weeks. The first is a tool to compare all metrics across two or more specific values. The second is a global benchmark that gives customers an id...

Hardware encoding in containers

Published on November 9, 2016 (over 8 years ago)

Hardware encoding in containers

Adam Brown
By Adam Brown1 min readEngineering

The Demuxed conference was recently kind enough to invite me speak about hardware video encoding in the cloud. Hardware vendors have been hard at work recently releasing updates to their encoding chips...

WebRTC: From the ground up

Published on November 8, 2016 (over 8 years ago)

WebRTC: From the ground up

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick1 min readVideo news

I recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation at Demuxed - the conference for video engineers. Over the past several years, I've had a fair amount of experience with live video systems and the v...