The Mux Blog

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

Kafka Connect: The Magic Behind Mux Data Realtime Exports

By Scott Kidder • 12 min read • Engineering

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.

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

Live streaming with React Native

By Erik Peña • 5 min read • Engineering

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 (over 4 years ago)

Making Storyboards Fast!

By Josh Allmann • 4 min read • Engineering

*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...

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

stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it.

By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Engineering

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.

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

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

By Matt Ward • 10 min read • Engineering

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.

Published on August 13, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

Hey look, a Mux CLI

By Matthew McClure • 2 min read • Engineering

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!

Published on June 16, 2020 (about 5 years ago)

Building TikTok: Smooth scrolling on iOS

By Nidhi Kulkarni • 14 min read • Engineering

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.

Published on May 13, 2020 (about 5 years ago)

How ClickHouse saved our data

By Kevin King • 14 min read • Engineering

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...

Published on April 14, 2020 (about 5 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 (about 5 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.