The Mux Blog

We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

Published on April 2, 2025 (9 months ago)

How to build a Windows 98-style video player in 2025

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Engineering & Video education

Get your dose of nostalgia as Dave puts Media Chrome to work to build a player in the style of Windows 98.

Published on March 6, 2025 (10 months ago)

Developer spotlight: Cats with Bats reimagines how developers learn with AI

By Dave and Hai • 8 min read • Customers & Engineering

Cats with Bats is reimagining developer education with AI-powered video tutorials, code extraction, and Mux-powered video for a modern way to learn to code.

Lee Robinson on a background that shows the Vercel Marketplace

Published on January 16, 2025 (11 months ago)

Reducing friction with video through Vercel Marketplace's integration with Mux

By Dave and Staci • 23 min read • Partnerships & Engineering

Lee Robinson chats with Mux about the new Vercel Marketplace, the role of AI in the developer experience, and tips for aspiring content creators.

Published on January 16, 2025 (11 months ago)

Mux’s high-performance video now in the Vercel Marketplace

By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Engineering

Integrating high-performance video into Vercel applications is easier than ever with Mux's new Vercel Marketplace app.

Published on December 18, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

How we use ClickHouse as a real-time stream processing engine

By Faith and Josh • 18 min read • Engineering

At Mux, we replaced Flink and Postgres with ClickHouse to handle real-time stream processing. Here's how we scale and simplify our video architecture.

A photo of Kafka is layered on top of some Clickhouse code. There's a stopwatch in the bottom right hand corner. The composition seems to be suggesting an introduction of some latency.

Published on November 26, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

How we cut ClickHouse latency from 12s to 2s

By Nidhi Kulkarni • 12 min read • Engineering

Here's how we identified and fixed a performance bottleneck in our ClickHouse cluster during the ingestion of high-volume real-time data through Kafka.

A dark gray rectangular badge with rounded corners that reads "Powered by Mux" in uppercase letters. The text is light gray, and the word "Mux" is bolder and slightly larger than the rest. The badge has a subtle outline, giving it a modern and sleek appearance.

Published on November 6, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Powered by Mux: Get credits for your developer video content

By Dave Kiss • 5 min read • Engineering

Get Mux credits for serving your developer video content with Mux. In this post, learn about our new Powered by Mux program and how it works.

A person holding a skateboard with various tech-related stickers on it. The skateboard features the Mux and Laravel logos prominently, along with other stickers such as "JS" and a smiley face. The person's hands, colored in pink, are gripping the board, and they are dressed in a black outfit with a purple shirt. The background consists of a grid-like pattern.

Published on September 6, 2024 (over 1 year ago)

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript

By Dave Kiss • 9 min read • Engineering

What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.

A deeply confused, yet well-intentioned robot, throwing up his arms in confusion

Published on September 6, 2024 (over 1 year ago)

AI chatbots are banned from our docs… for now

By Darius Cepulis • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

We can learn a lot about the current state of large language models by talking about why we chose not to use an AI chatbot on our documentation site.

Published on August 15, 2024 (over 1 year ago)

Level up your video experience with these AI example workflows

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Engineering • AI

Examples of how to use Mux with AI tools like OpenAI and Claude3 to generate video chapters, translation and dubbing and summarization and tagging.

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