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Published on May 13, 2021 (almost 3 years ago)

An interview with Maestro: Orchestrating the future of interactive live events

Lynnette Nolan
Ed Ropple
By Lynnette and Ed1 min readCustomers

When 2020 pressed pause on live events creators had to get...creative. Maestro’s Ari Evans talks about developing an interactive streaming platform for the creator economy to stay connected with fans.

New pricing

Published on May 6, 2021 (almost 3 years ago)

New lower, simplified pricing for Mux Video

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan3 min readProduct

We strive to make video simple to use and that applies to pricing too. Today, we’re rolling out updated pricing that removes a layer of complexity and makes it that much easier to use Mux.

Published on April 30, 2021 (almost 3 years ago)

Online video is changing and Mux is growing

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl4 min readCompany

We raised some money! $100M Series D; Coatue, Accel, A16Z; several other great investors, like Cobalt, Dragoneer, and HubSpot Ventures; etc. This would have come as a bit of a surprise to me not too l...

Published on April 20, 2021 (almost 3 years ago)

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

Scott Kidder
Justin Sanford
By Scott and Justin10 min readEngineering

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.

Simulacra

Published on April 12, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

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

Dmitry Ilyevsky
By Dmitry Ilyevsky13 min readEngineering

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.

Oak National Academy screen

Published on April 8, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

How Oak National Academy went from vision to virtual education in 6 days [part 1]

Lynnette Nolan
Phil Cluff
By Lynnette and Phil14 min readCustomers

Oak National Academy started with a mission to educate virtually in lockdown. 100 million lessons later, they’re providing zero-rated education. Learn about their launch and approach to accessibility.

Published on April 7, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

More control and management capabilities across Mux

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich1 min readProduct

We’re excited to give all Mux customers an additional layer of control to manage their accounts with Multi-Organization User Access.

confusion

Published on April 6, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

Device detection is a journey, not a destination

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons10 min readEngineering

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 April 6, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

Improved visibility into your users’ experience

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich1 min readProduct

To help you better improve the quality of your viewers’ experience and diagnose and debug issues, we’ve improved device detection to be more accurate. Because video experiences can vary widely by devic...

grow

Published on April 5, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

Onboarding new hires from home, the office, and everywhere in between

Venus Najeeb
Becca Axvig
By Venus and Becca8 min readCompany

Like video, onboarding at a new company is hard. At Mux, we’ve put a lot of thought into onboarding and our goal is to have every new hire fully ramped in 90 days.