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confusion

Published on April 6, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons10 min readEngineering

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.

Data

Published on January 18, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Olivia Smith
By Olivia Smith10 min readEngineering

Mux Data tracks key insights about your videos. Learn how to make graphs using data from the Mux Data API and present these insights in a React application.

Keyboard synthesizer with patch cables

Published on December 16, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder12 min readEngineering

Kafka Connect is a powerful tool for moving data in and out of Apache Kafka clusters. Learn how Mux uses Kafka Connect to power real-time exports, as well as lessons we've developed along the way.

Live streaming with React Native

Published on December 8, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña5 min readEngineering

So... You've decided to introduce mobile live streaming to your React Native app. This is wonderful and if you are using Mux this is especially great because getting set up and running is extremely...

Published on November 17, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Josh Allmann
By Josh Allmann4 min readEngineering

*This is part II in the journey Mux software developer Josh Allmann had with creating Storyboards. Check out the product announcement here! On making Storyboards fast On a personal note, this was my...

stream.new logo

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

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.

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

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

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 of a terminal using the CLI

Published on August 13, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

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!

film projector images

Published on June 16, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Nidhi Kulkarni
By Nidhi Kulkarni14 min readEngineering

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.

from russia with love

Published on May 13, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Kevin King
By Kevin King14 min readEngineering

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...