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Mux Wrapped 2024

Published on December 20, 2024 (3 months ago)

Mux Rewind: our 2024 in review

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss11 min readCompany

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?

The ClickHouse logo is in a black box with rounded corners. The box is places on a grid surrounded by yellow pipes weaving their way around the grid. The background is pink.

Published on December 18, 2024 (3 months ago)

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

Faith Szeto
Josh Wien
By Faith and Josh18 min readEngineering

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.

Visualization of the Engagement chart

Published on December 12, 2024 (4 months ago)

Understand your video trends: Introducing Mux Engagement

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler5 min readProduct

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 (4 months ago)

How we cut ClickHouse latency from 12s to 2s

Nidhi Kulkarni
By Nidhi Kulkarni12 min readEngineering

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.

A split screen of Dave Kiss and Theo Browne

Published on November 26, 2024 (4 months ago)

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

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss17 min readCustomers

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.

Glassdoor and Mux logo

Published on November 21, 2024 (4 months ago)

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

Lamia Chlala
Staci DeGagne
By Lamia and Staci3 min readCustomers

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

A dark gray rectangular badge with rounded corners that reads "Powered by Mux" in uppercase letters. The text is light gray, and the word "Mux" is bolder and slightly larger than the rest. The badge has a subtle outline, giving it a modern and sleek appearance.

Published on November 6, 2024 (5 months ago)

Powered by Mux: Get credits for your developer video content

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss5 min readEngineering

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 (5 months ago)

Here's everything we launched in Fall 2024

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss3 min readCompany

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

Image reads basic video quality and it's connected to MP4

Published on October 31, 2024 (5 months ago)

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

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith2 min readProduct

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.

Radio buttons with Premium video, plus video, and basic video. Premium is selected with with the text NEW! next to it.

Published on October 30, 2024 (5 months ago)

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

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff7 min readProductVideo 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.