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

Video is exploding and Mux raises a Series A

Published on April 18, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Video is exploding and Mux raises a Series A

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl6 min readCompany

Mux has raised a $9M Series A funding round from Accel. We’ve created the most accurate and actionable analytics platform for video performance.

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

Published on April 6, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan2 min readProductPricing

We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.

Recover from Rebuffering: Mux Metrics Explained

Published on March 30, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Recover from Rebuffering: Mux Metrics Explained

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Rebuffering can be the most frustrating part of online video for viewers. In this Article we're going to troubleshoot buffering issues with Mux metrics

Mux at Flink Forward SF 2017

Published on March 21, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Mux at Flink Forward SF 2017

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder0 min readEvents

Mux will be attending the Flink Forward SF conference on April 11, 2017 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. Scott Kidder from Mux will be speaking at Flink Forward on our Flink-powered real-time ano...

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Published on March 14, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Although Video Startup Time sounds like a simple metric it is vital to understand, but elusive to measure. Here at Mux we know our metrics.

Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications

Published on March 7, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Using Control Streams to Manage Apache Flink Applications

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder6 min readEngineering

Learn how Mux has used control streams to manage Apache Flink applications with zero-downtime.

Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink

Published on February 15, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder7 min readEngineering

Mux receives a continuous stream of video-view event data, every second of every day. Some of these views indicate errors during the delivery or playback of video. How can we detect error spikes in rea...

Published on January 20, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Announcing Alerting

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure3 min readProduct

One of the core beliefs we have at Mux is that everything we do should help customers improve their platform and viewer experience. We help them understand the overall health of their video delivery pl...

Mux at AWS re:Invent 2016

Published on November 21, 2016 (over 9 years ago)

Mux at AWS re:Invent 2016

Lauren White
By Lauren White1 min readEvents

Mux will be attending AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas from November 29-Dec 2, 2016. Folks from our team will be available to meet and demo our video performance analytics platform. We recently launched new...

What's new: metric comparisons and global scores

Published on November 15, 2016 (almost 10 years ago)

What's new: metric comparisons and global scores

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readProduct

We've shipped two new features at Mux over the last two weeks. The first is a tool to compare all metrics across two or more specific values. The second is a global benchmark that gives customers an id...