Mux Blog - Video technology and more

Published on April 14, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

The state of going live from a browser

By Matthew McClure • 10 min read • Engineering

You can watch live TV, record yourself, video chat with peers, screenshare...of course you can broadcast live RTMP streams, right? Weeelll...No, but kinda sorta with some server-side help.

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

Mux is the video API for the JAMstack

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

Here we discuss how you can use the Mux APIs in your JAMstack and how we use the JAMstack ourselves to power our blog and Gatsby site Sanity as a headless CMS.

Published on March 2, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

How to Host Your Own Online Conference

By Dylan Jhaveri • 8 min read • Engineering

How you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.

Published on October 15, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens

By Dylan Jhaveri • 7 min read • Engineering

See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.

Published on October 3, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go

By Scott Kidder • 14 min read • Engineering

Mux uses Kafka and Go to perform stateful processing of millions of video views each day. Learn how we approach handling Kafka streams in Golang at scale.

Published on June 24, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Abstracting Our Redux Confirmation Modal Pattern

By Matthew McClure • 3 min read • Engineering

Our Redux store was getting littered with confirmation-modal specific actions. Enter the first Redux Sagas pattern that felt like it was helping to simplify a difficult problem in our application.

Published on May 16, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

When Good Certificates Go Bad: Monitoring for Expired TLS Certificates

By Scott Kidder • 7 min read • Engineering

TLS certificates are essential to commerce, privacy, and trust on the Internet. Learn about the open-source TLS certificate expiry monitoring tool from Mux.

Published on May 1, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Quantifying packaging overhead

By Matthew Szatmary • 7 min read • Engineering

Mux makes adding video to your app or website as easy as making a single API call. But behind the scenes is a large multistep process to analyze and transform the video into something that can be easil...