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An illustration of a beetle displaying on a smart TV. A purple cord is plugged in to the TV and winds its way around the beetle.

Published on June 30, 2023 (9 months ago)

How to keep calm and debug smart TVs

Edwin Mejia
Grady Player
Alex Paseltiner
By Edwin, Grady, and Alex13 min readEngineering

Read a debugging journey that had us buying discontinued hardware off eBay and exhausting every possible industry contact that might have any insight.

A grid containing the logos for Google BigQuery, Google Pub/Sub, Looker, and Mux

Published on June 20, 2023 (9 months ago)

Creating a data reporting strategy with Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, & Looker Studio

Richard Headon
By Richard Headon7 min readEngineering

In this walkthrough, you'll learn how to export your video viewing data from Mux into Google BigQuery for analysis with Looker Studio.

An illustration of a slot car coming to a fork in the track: to the left, a purple track labeled "Management" and to the right is a green track labeled "Individual Contributor"

Published on June 15, 2023 (10 months ago)

The engineering manager's guide for someone who really loves to code

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri12 min readCompany

Am I a glutton for meetings and punishment? Or is there a way you, too, can be a full-time manager while still exercising your love for writing code?

Staylive's logo next to Q+A

Published on June 8, 2023 (10 months ago)

Q&A with Staylive: How to free up your team to do what they do best

Jamie Lonsdale
By Jamie Lonsdale11 min readCustomers

See how Staylive, a leader in live sports streaming technology, uses Mux to white-label OTT platforms to their customers.

A laptop showing a video player with a degraded video playing. A red error icon is overlaid on top of the video.

Published on June 5, 2023 (10 months ago)

Video Startup Failure: New metric in the Mux Data Monitoring Dashboard

Yushu Cao
Walker Frankenberg
By Yushu and Walker2 min readProduct

Mux Data can now calculate and show Video Startup Failures in the Monitoring Dashboard. Learn more about this metric in this post.

Media Chrome 1.0

Published on June 1, 2023 (10 months ago)

Media Chrome turns 1.0, huzzah!

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan9 min readEngineering, Product, & Video news

Media Chrome, the set of web components for video and audio players is now version 1.0. While it was production ready before, now we promise it is.

An illustration of a pair of hands making a heart shape, the focal point within the hands is the SwiftUI logo

Published on May 30, 2023 (10 months ago)

SwiftUI stole the best parts of React…and my heart

Liam Lindner
By Liam Lindner6 min readEngineering

SwiftUI is like the assembled Voltron of app development tools, in contrast to the rickety Frankenstein’s monster that React has become.

A laptop showing a site similar to YouTube with the recommendation list, a skip button in the bottom left, and text saying "Section 230 update"

Published on May 20, 2023 (10 months ago)

SCOTUS hits “skip” on Section 230

Victoria Nemiah
By Victoria Nemiah2 min readVideo news

On May 18th, 2023, the court issued their decision in Gonzalez v. Google. This post breaks down what happened and explores the future of Section 230.

An illustration of a laptop displaying a live video stream. The video shows a smiling woman applying lip gloss. The video is overlayed with a green bar chart and a green line chart showing growth.

Published on May 18, 2023 (11 months ago)

Stream with confidence: introducing live stream health stats

Philip Chang
Yushu Cao
By Philip and Yushu9 min readProduct

The live stream health stats API gives broadcasters greater insight into the performance of their live stream connection.

Published on May 3, 2023 (11 months ago)

Set your player’s OOTD!

Asiya Gorelik
By Asiya Gorelik2 min readProduct

Meg, Dylan, and Christian said it perfectly: When it comes to players, we don’t play games. At Mux, we’re not the “set it and forget it” kind of folks. We’re on a never-ending mission to make developer...