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Steven Lyons

Steven Lyons

Director of Product Management
Steve comes from data-driven optimization and analytics at Cedexis and Yahoo!. A tea drinker in the land of coffee.
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Tie together your client and CDN logs using Mux Data with CMCD
02/22/23February 22, 2023(about 1 month ago)
8 min read

Tie together your client and CDN logs using Mux Data with CMCD

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product8 min read
I have young kids, so I spend a lot of time looking for missing toys. Often we end up finding those toys under a couch or between the bed and a wall. Searching all the nooks and crannies can be hard — ...
Streams of data emanating from Mux Data, populating a data lake.
08/10/22August 10, 2022(8 months ago)
6 min read

Do more with your video data — launching Streaming Exports in Mux Data.

Steven Lyons
John Riske
by Steven and John
Product6 min read
Announcing general availability of Streaming Exports in Mux Data. You can stream data of individual views as they complete!
How live is your stream? Measuring live latency at scale with Mux Data.
04/04/22April 4, 2022(12 months ago)
6 min read

How live is your stream? Measuring live latency at scale with Mux Data.

Steven Lyons
John Riske
by Steven and John
Product6 min read
Announcing the beta for the Live Stream Latency metric!
Collage of video data, with more features and better pricing.
11/09/21November 9, 2021(over 1 year ago)
5 min read

Mux Data: More features and better pricing for developers

Steven Lyons
John Riske
by Steven and John
Product5 min read
Announcing broader access to powerful Mux Data features, and dramatically better pricing for developers.
Image of Real Time View and Viewer Counts from Real Time Engagement API.  See how many people are watching your video.
11/02/21November 2, 2021(over 1 year ago)
6 min read

Giving developers more with Mux Data + Mux Video

Steven Lyons
John Riske
by Steven and John
Product6 min read
We launched a new API for real-time video view and unique viewer data, along with improvements to combine the superpowers of Mux Data and Video.
Track the success of your videos with new Engagement Metrics
06/24/21June 24, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
6 min read

Track the success of your videos with new Engagement Metrics

Steven Lyons
Bonnie Pecevich
by Steven and Bonnie
Product6 min read
Before you invest in optimizing your video platform, you first want to know if your videos are gaining traction. Introducing Engagement Metrics - track the success of your videos.
confusion
04/06/21April 6, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
10 min read

Device detection is a journey, not a destination

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Engineering10 min read
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.
Mux Data, now twice as helpful!
11/23/20November 23, 2020(over 2 years ago)
5 min read

Mux Data, now twice as helpful!

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product5 min read
Earlier this year, we undertook a big project to replace the data backend Mux Data uses for our metrics, views, and errors. It was a “replacing the engines on the airplane while flying” project and la ...
Threshold Alerting Blog
10/08/20October 8, 2020(over 2 years ago)
6 min read

Monitor Viewer Experience Problems with new Customizable Alerts

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product6 min read
When Mux adds new features to any of its products, we try hard to make sure that the feature is easy to use and valuable by default. This led us to develop our existing anomaly-detection-based alertin ...
Current Average Bitrate
08/20/20August 20, 2020(over 2 years ago)
6 min read

New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product6 min read
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.
Real-Time Dashboard
06/26/20June 26, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
9 min read

Respond to and Resolve Incidents with the Real-Time Dashboard

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product9 min read
Our new Real-Time Dashboard features make things easier to manage when an outage or customer-impacting incident occurs. See what steps you should follow in resolving any incident.
Real-Time Dashboard API
05/11/20May 11, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
6 min read

Access to all your data via the Real-Time Dashboard API

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product6 min read
We know a single interface is an important part of customers’ monitoring infrastructure so we wanted to make it easy to use existing tools but still have access to the low-latency, real-time metrics.
Reporting Flexibility with New Advanced Filtering
05/11/20May 11, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
4 min read

Reporting Flexibility with New Advanced Filtering

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Product4 min read
With advanced filtering, Mux Data has the reporting flexibility to match the complexity of the issues you're trying to resolve.
Video observability
05/07/20May 7, 2020(almost 3 years ago)
8 min read

What is Video Observability?

Steven Lyons
by Steven Lyons
Video education8 min read
An observable system allows the operator to infer the functioning of a system with just knowledge of its outputs. “Video Observability” describes the monitoring of complex video streaming platforms.