Inside Meltwater Engineering.

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...

Benthos is a dull and resilient stream processor that solves mundane streaming tasks. Its development is driven by our desire to defer these tasks to a common tool wherever sensible, allowing us to focus on solving more interesting business problems within our stream pipelines. This post explains why we chose to build...

Love it or hate it, CSV is a format many developers have to deal with at some stage. It’s lightweight and it’s understood by many platforms and humans. However, if you’re using non-ASCII characters (like an umlaut on the word über or accent in José) and you have users viewing your CSV...

Are you working with an ocean of microservices connected together by a message broker like RabbitMQ? Then there is a chance you have experienced queues filling up and messages not reaching their destination, most likely due to stability issues in your architecture of services. If you want to know how our engineers...