The Mux Blog

Published on July 14, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Processing CDN logs exactly-once with Kafka transactions

By Drew Rodman • 18 min read • Engineering

Learn how to use Kafka transactions to accurately process CDN logs at scale.

Published on June 7, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Mobile Safari HLS bug with short form looping videos

By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Engineering

There appears to be a bug in Mobile Safari’s default HLS.js implementation on an iPhone when it comes to looping short-form videos.

Published on May 27, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)

Background audio handling with iOS AVPlayer

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

In this post, we walk through how to persist audio in your iOS app when the application goes into the background.

Published on April 20, 2021 (about 4 years ago)

Be the MVP of your live stream: Lessons learned from monitoring the Big Game

By Scott and Justin • 10 min read • Engineering

Maybe you’re not planning an event with millions of concurrent viewers, but our takeaways from monitoring one of the biggest sporting events of the year are applicable to live streams of all sizes.

Published on April 12, 2021 (about 4 years ago)

Simulacra and Network Virtualization: Does cloud load-balancing work for long-lived TCP streams?

By Dmitry Ilyevsky • 13 min read • Engineering

While hunting for a pesky live streaming bug, we discovered that virtual load balancers don’t always simulate their physical counterparts the way you might expect.

Published on April 6, 2021 (about 4 years ago)

Device detection is a journey, not a destination

By Steven Lyons • 10 min read • Engineering

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.

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

Using the Data API to create custom visualizations

By Olivia Smith • 10 min read • Engineering

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.

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...