The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on January 12, 2018 (over 7 years ago)
How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia
For the past three months, half of us at Mux have been obsessed with HQ Trivia, while the other half silently regretted their Android purchases. When that HQ push notification hits at 12, the iPhones s...
Published on December 22, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Using Percentiles To Identify Outliers and the Typical Experience
The most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.
Published on March 7, 2017 (over 8 years ago)
Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications
Learn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.
Published on February 15, 2017 (over 8 years ago)
Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink
Mux receives a continuous stream of video-view event data, every second of every day. Some of these views indicate errors during the delivery or playback of video. How can we detect error spikes in rea...
Published on November 9, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Hardware encoding in containers
The Demuxed conference was recently kind enough to invite me speak about hardware video encoding in the cloud. Hardware vendors have been hard at work recently releasing updates to their encoding chips...