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At Meltwater, we crawl hundreds of thousands of sources to provide real-time insights from over a billion articles every day. However, different from classical “grab everything” crawlers like Googlebot, Meltwater’s crawlers are highly targeted, aiming to surgically crawl only news and other information crucial for PR professionals. That allows us to maximize...

On January 8th, Meltwater’s French AI team hosted the Paris NLP meetup in the Paris office a highly regarded event known for featuring prominent speakers from organizations such as Meta, Mistral and Kuytai. Over 80 attendees gathered to hear Alexandre Brasseur share Meltwater’s ongoing efforts and retrospective in building MIRA (Meltwater Information...

At Meltwater, our teams have the flexibility to select the programming languages that best suit their needs. With many options available, JVM languages have emerged as a popular choice. For managing JVM projects, some teams opt for Gradle, my team prefers using Maven as a project management tool. One of the features...

Ensemble programming (also known as mob programming) is by now a well known practice for collaborative software development. As remote work becomes more common, ensembles face a new set of challenges. This post describes some of the practices that has evolved over a few years of remote ensemble programming at Meltwater. NB....

At Meltwater, several times a year, our global engineering team participates in an exhilarating 3-day hackathon. This event, conducted in a hybrid model, invites every engineer, regardless of their location, to bring forth their innovative ideas, and collaborate from their home office or on-site at their local office. Innovation and continuous improvement...

In today’s rapidly evolving tech industry, embracing neurodiversity can unlock the potential of employees with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), leading to increased innovation, productivity, and collaboration. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the unique strengths and challenges of ASD and ADHD employees in software engineering...

At Meltwater, Elasticsearch is at the heart of our product - we’re constantly looking for ways to improve our usage of it and make it more performant. Recently we noticed when doing a routine rolling restart that the first backup taken after the restart took up to 7 hours instead of the...

Effective communication is a crucial aspect of success in business and software development settings. It can help build better relationships with colleagues, increase productivity, and achieve better outcomes. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some key strategies to help you communicate effectively in business settings. Know Your Audience Understanding your audience is...

This is the 7th and final part of our blog post series on how we upgraded our Elasticsearch cluster without downtime and with minimal user impact. In this post, we will focus on several of the benefits we have seen after the upgrade and provide more details on how our architecture looks...