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Dylan Jhaveri

Dylan Jhaveri

Sr. Manager, Community & Open Source
Software Engineer and cold water surfer. Previously startup co-founder. Trying to find the best cheeseburger in San Francisco.
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image of mux player
10/19/22October 19, 2022(5 months ago)
13 min read

Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering13 min read
There have been a lot of hot takes and chatter flying around the interwebs about web components over the last few months. We read a lot of it, but the day-to-day 280-character hot takes on Twitter are ...
A mockup of custom Mux water bottles that were designed for CascadiaJS conference.
09/13/22September 13, 2022(6 months ago)
6 min read

400 water bottles and a video guestbook at CascadiaJS

Dave Kiss
Dylan Jhaveri
Darius Cepulis
Amin Amos
by Dave and 3 more
Events6 min read
Mux was proud to be a sponsor at CascadiaJS 2022 – here's a recap of our experience in the high desert.
mux player
08/04/22August 4, 2022(8 months ago)
3 min read

When it comes to players, we don't play games.

Meg Salisbury
Dylan Jhaveri
Christian Pillsbury
by Meg, Dylan, and Christian
Product3 min read
You knew it was coming, folks (or at least, we were not shy about it)! Mux Player is officially in Public Beta, ready to play your videos for everyone, everywhere. We’ve spent the last seven months (m ...
media-chrome HTML elements
12/02/21December 2, 2021(over 1 year ago)
9 min read

Building the next generation of video players with Media Chrome

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering9 min read
Here at Mux we've been quietly (or not so quietly) working on an open source project called Media Chrome. We're biased, of course, but as folks who have built a lot of players, we think we've really g ...
mux-video HTML element
11/16/21November 16, 2021(over 1 year ago)
6 min read

Mux-flavored HTML video tag

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Product6 min read
Introducing the Mux-flavored html video tag: mux-video. Get Mux Video streaming + Mux Data integrated directly with pure HTML.
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
08/18/21August 18, 2021(over 1 year ago)
10 min read

You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering10 min read
Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)
Mobile Safari HLS bug with short form looping videos
06/07/21June 7, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
4 min read

Mobile Safari HLS bug with short form looping videos

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering4 min read
There appears to be a bug in Mobile Safari’s default HLS implementation when it comes to looping short-form videos.
Background audio handling with iOS AVPlayer
05/27/21May 27, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
9 min read

Background audio handling with iOS AVPlayer

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering9 min read
In this post, we walk through how to persist audio in your iOS app when the application goes into the background.
Building better docs at Mux with Next.js, Open API, Algolia and SwaggerParser
03/30/21March 30, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
14 min read

Building better docs

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Company14 min read
We shipped a shiny new docs site: docs.mux.com. This is the story of why and how we did it. Today, I’m going to talk about some of the usability testing we did that led to that decision, and about how ...
stream.new logo
10/01/20October 1, 2020(over 2 years ago)
4 min read

stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it.

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering4 min read
stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it. Read about this new free and open source project built and powered by Mux.
Mux OneGraph GraphQL
09/25/20September 25, 2020(over 2 years ago)
3 min read

Mux API: With GraphQL Powered by OneGraph

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Product3 min read
Mux Video API can now be used with GraphQL (powered by OneGraph).
The Summer of Making Powered by Hack Club
08/04/20August 4, 2020(over 2 years ago)
5 min read

2020: The Summer of Making Powered by Hack Club

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Customers5 min read
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.
developers, developers, developers
07/27/20July 27, 2020(over 2 years ago)
5 min read

Developer, Developer, Developer Experience

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Company5 min read
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!
Jason Mattiace, Cadenza CTO
04/10/20April 10, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
7 min read

Interview with Cadenza: Live streaming for off-stage concerts

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Customers7 min read
This is an interview with Jason Mattiace CTO and Co-founder at Cadenza.tv. Cadenza is a live video streaming platform for hosting concerts.
JAMstack graphic
04/07/20April 7, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
9 min read

Mux is the video API for the JAMstack

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering9 min read
Here we discuss how you can use the Mux APIs in your JAMstack and how we use the JAMstack ourselves to power our blog and Gatsby site Sanity as a headless CMS.
RTMP broadcasting apps for iOS
03/27/20March 27, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
8 min read

Guide to RTMP live streaming apps for iOS

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Video education8 min read
This is a guide to RTMP streaming. The post will show the review of the top 11 iOS to RTMP server streaming apps including Wirecast Go, Broadcast Me, and more.
online conference diagram
03/02/20March 2, 2020(about 3 years ago)
8 min read

How to Host Your Own Online Conference

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering8 min read
How you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.
Live interactive video like hq
02/13/20February 13, 2020(about 3 years ago)
10 min read

How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)

Steve Heffernan
Dylan Jhaveri
by Steve and Dylan
Video education10 min read
Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.
An interview with DatoCMS
02/03/20February 3, 2020(about 3 years ago)
4 min read

An interview with DatoCMS

Matthew McClure
Dylan Jhaveri
by Matthew and Dylan
Customers4 min read
See how DatoCMS uses Mux to power video for customers using their headless CMS product.
I will find you and I will pause you
01/23/20January 23, 2020(about 3 years ago)
4 min read

<video autoplay> Considered Harmful

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Video education4 min read
The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.
Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting
11/25/19November 25, 2019(over 3 years ago)
5 min read

Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Video education5 min read
Your guide to Mux Simulcasting. Learn how to help your users broadcast to Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and more over RTMP.
11/01/19November 1, 2019(over 3 years ago)
1 min read

Mux Contributor Program

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Company1 min read
Mux officially has a contributor program! We have a lot of open source repos and we love accepting contributions from outside developers. One obvious place to contribute is our open sourced API SDKs f ...
New Integration Announcement: Contentful
10/17/19October 17, 2019(over 3 years ago)
2 min read

New Integration Announcement: Contentful

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Product2 min read
Use Mux to add video in your Contentful CMS content. Transcode MP4 and playback HLS videos.
Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens
10/15/19October 15, 2019(over 3 years ago)
7 min read

Using Netlify Functions to Create Mux Signing Tokens

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Engineering7 min read
See how to use Netlify Functions with Mux signing keys to easily create secure signed URLs. Open source code included.
ElixirConf 2019 Wrap Up
09/09/19September 9, 2019(over 3 years ago)
6 min read

ElixirConf 2019 Wrap Up

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Events6 min read
ElixirConf 2019 Aurora, Co. Phoenix LiveView, Nerves and other trends from 2019
New SDK Alert: Shaka Player + Mux Data 🤙
08/21/19August 21, 2019(over 3 years ago)
2 min read

New SDK Alert: Shaka Player + Mux Data 🤙

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Product2 min read
Integrate Mux Data with Shaka Player to track quality of experience and viewer playback data. Understand your video performance.
Phoenix LiveView: Build Twitch Without Writing JavaScript
08/19/19August 19, 2019(over 3 years ago)
4 min read

Phoenix LiveView: Build Twitch Without Writing JavaScript

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Video education4 min read
Demo application like Twitch with Phoenix LiveView for live streaming
Dylan Jhaveri: Why I Joined Mux
08/08/19August 8, 2019(over 3 years ago)
4 min read

Dylan Jhaveri: Why I Joined Mux

Dylan Jhaveri
by Dylan Jhaveri
Company4 min read
Having worked in the video streaming space for the past 4 years at Crowdcast, I’ve been following the ecosystem closely. Mux first came on my radar in 2018.