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Published on December 20, 2024 (2 days ago)

Mux Rewind: our 2024 in review

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the bigger picture: what have we accomplished? Where are we headed? What can we celebrate?

Published on December 18, 2024 (4 days ago)

How we use ClickHouse as a real-time stream processing engine

By Faith and Josh • 18 min read • Engineering

At Mux, we replaced Flink and Postgres with ClickHouse to handle real-time stream processing. Here's how we scale and simplify our video architecture.

Published on December 12, 2024 (10 days ago)

Understand your video trends: Introducing Mux Engagement

By Ashley Cutler • 5 min read • Product

Introducing Mux Engagement - a new way to understand your video trends and top-performing content. Get insights into viewer engagement, retention, and more.

A photo of Kafka is layered on top of some Clickhouse code. There's a stopwatch in the bottom right hand corner. The composition seems to be suggesting an introduction of some latency.

Published on November 26, 2024 (26 days ago)

Latency and throughput tradeoffs of ClickHouse Kafka Table Engine

By Nidhi Kulkarni • 12 min read • Engineering

Here's how we identified and fixed a performance bottleneck in our ClickHouse cluster during the ingestion of high-volume real-time data through Kafka.

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Published on November 26, 2024 (26 days ago)

Mastering Video Uploads and Streaming: Insights from Theo Browne (t3.gg)

By Dave Kiss • 17 min read • Customers

Theo Brown, a former Twitch engineer, shares his journey in tech and content creation, discussing the development of tools like Uploadthing and Ping, and the integration of Mux for better video streaming experiences.

Published on November 21, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

Why Glassdoor partnered with Mux to build UGC video quickly for their community

By Lamia and Staci • 3 min read • Customers

Learn how Glassdoor was able to build UGC video quickly and easily with Mux, without all the pain and price of DIY.

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Published on November 6, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

Powered by Mux: Get credits for your developer video content

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Engineering

Get Mux credits for serving your developer video content with Mux. In this post, learn about our new Powered by Mux program and how it works.

A promo image for Mux fall launch week 2024. It features a jack-o-lantern with a purple steam rising from its cap. A pair of green hands with long black fingernails cups the pumpkin in their palms. A spooky bat flies nearby.

Published on November 5, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

Here's everything we launched in Fall 2024

By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Company

Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.

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Published on October 31, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

The most requested feature for basic assets is here: MP4 support

By Mike Smith • 2 min read • Product

MP4 support for basic assets has just been unlocked. MP4s are perfect for offline playback, social embeds, and more. Learn how you can start using them today.

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Published on October 30, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

One size does not fit all: Introducing premium video quality for Mux Video

By Phil Cluff • 7 min read • Product • Video quality

Introducing premium quality video level for live and on-demand videos. It optimizes quality for your premium content using AI-driven per-title encoding.

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