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

Published on September 21, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

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

Matt Ward
By Matt Ward10 min readEngineering

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.

A screenshot showing a failed CDN request

Published on September 10, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff4 min readProduct

Learn how you can use Mux's Redundant Streams feature to make your events more resilient to larger, internet wide service outages, such as CDN failures.

Current Average Bitrate

Published on August 20, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons6 min readProduct

One of the important factors in viewing experience is the bitrate that is played on a device. Mux Data now provides a few different ways to view bitrate data collected from viewer streams.

Remote @ Mux

Published on August 17, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Remote @ Mux

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl7 min readCompany

Here at Mux, we are implementing a remote-equal policy. This means that employees working in a core office aren't privileged over employees working from smaller offices or from home.

A screenshot of a terminal using the CLI

Published on August 13, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Hey look, a Mux CLI

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure2 min readEngineering

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!

The Summer of Making Powered by Hack Club

Published on August 4, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

2020: The Summer of Making Powered by Hack Club

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readCustomers

Hack Club is an organization of high school students across the globe. To adapt with school closers they made 2020 the "Summer of Making" and are using Mux Video to power the summer scrapbook.

Is this a hacker?

Published on July 31, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Announcing the Mux bug bounty program

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff3 min readCompany

Today we're really excited to announce the opening of the Mux bug bounty program. Since we started Mux, we've worked hard to ensure Mux is a safe and secure environment for our customers and their vie...

Color rendering differences

Published on July 29, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Your browser and my browser see different colors

Matthew Szatmary
By Matthew Szatmary11 min readVideo education

Most people know some basics of color theory but what many do not realize is how complicated this becomes when we try to record and playback color accurately.

developers, developers, developers

Published on July 27, 2020 (over 3 years ago)

Developer, Developer, Developer Experience

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readCompany

When we use the term "developer experience," we mean our customers are the developers and we're wholly focused on building their experience. Check out our open DevEx roles!

1964 World's Fair vision of weather monitoring in the future

Published on July 1, 2020 (almost 4 years ago)

Why You Should Use a CDN for Video

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder8 min readVideo education

Online video consumption is accelerating rapidly, and video Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been instrumental in sustaining this growth.