Inside Meltwater Engineering.

Have you implemented a system that is supposed to perform tasks at regular intervals? Does the repeated failure of such a system pose a threat to your quality of service? If so, I am sure you would want to be alerted, if your system suddenly stops performing these tasks. We at Meltwater’s...

Jupyter is a popular web framework used with Python to easily visualize and manipulate data. It can display the results of many databases using the Pandas library, but the popular Gremlin graph query language hasn’t been supported. To solve this problem we created and open-sourced JUGRI to show your Gremlin query results...

Today we are excited to share our Immutable Web Applications methodology with you. Immutable Web Applications is a framework-agnostic methodology for building and deploying static, single-page applications that minimizes the complexity of live releases and enables continuous delivery through simple, flexible, atomic deployments. If you care about building web applications, and want...

In Meltwater’s Berlin office, we are enthusiastic users and advocates for Elixir and ruby. Hence we were excited to get the chance to host the Elixir Berlin meetup for the first time this November. It was the #53’rd edition of the Elixir Berlin already, what a great streak! Besides hosting the event...

At the heart of Meltwater’s and Fairhair.ai’s information retrieval systems lies a collection of Elasticsearch clusters containing billions of social media posts and editorial articles. The index shards in our clusters vary greatly in their access pattern, workload and size which presents some very interesting challenges. This blog post describes how we...

Quitsies is a distributed and disk persisted caching system that implements a subset of the Memcached text protocol. It was built as a minimal drop-in replacement for Memcached, and has been running in our production pipelines for over a year. This post explains why we needed Quitsies, and how we went about...

Would you agree that your biases are affecting your recruitment process? We have been thinking about it and we were especially curious how we can improve our recruitment process by working with our biases and learning how to disarm those when hiring. In this post we are sharing the tools and processes...

Meltwater recently launched the Fairhair.ai data science platform. Part of this platform are several large Elasticsearch clusters, which serve insights over billions of social media posts and editorial articles. The nature of the searches that our customers need to run against this data quickly make the default load balancing behaviour of Elasticsearch...

Meltwater is excited to sponsor Brewing Agile in Gothenburg on October 12-13, 2018. This is the 4th year in a row that Meltwater is supporting Brewing Agile, so you can tell that we are honestly excited about this event. This is the only conference about Agile in Gothenburg, and there are still...