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Highlights from Lonestar ElixirConf 2018

Conference Lonestar ElixirConf Elixir

This year’s winter in Berlin has been going on for far too long. Fortunately I managed to escape to Texas, USA for a few days to speak at and attend Lonstar ElixirConf 2018. When I wasn’t eating BBQ and remembering what the sun looked like, I saw some great talks and met some amazing people. It was an excellent conference... Read the story

Volunteering for a Good Cause at Meltwater Bangalore

The Meltwater Bangalore team recently dedicated time to help out underprivileged kids in their local community. They collected donations in their office, and went to the Ashanilaya Orphanage in their neighborhood to spend time with the kids. In this post Rupen Paul, who was part of this event, shares his personal account...

Two days of fun() at Lambda Days 2018

Conference Lambda Days Functional Programming

Are you curious about the Functional Programming trend that has been growing the past years? You should be! Many exciting new and old Functional ways are reshaping the software development world. In this post I will share my favorite talks from Lambda Days 2018. I got the opportunity to travel to Krakow...

Running a 400+ Node Elasticsearch Cluster

Given the volume of many million posts per day that Meltwater has to process, we need a technology for search and storage that can handle this kind of volume. We have been a pretty happy users of Elasticsearch since the 0.11.X days. While we have been through some up and downs, in...

Assuming roles in AWS with sudo-like agility

AWS awscli IAM Roles Security cli command-line

Meltwater just released awsudo, an npm package designed to make assuming AWS IAM roles on the command line trivial. Assuming an AWS IAM role on the command line is not a simple process, and we wanted it to be a human-readable one-liner. Meltwater’s awsudo achieves this with a straightforward command that you...

How to Organise an Unconference

We just finished our quarterly Meltwater-internal conference. As this is the 6th time that we have run the event, we have gathered some experience by now and I thought it was a good time to share what we have learned about planning and executing such an event. I wanted to share the...

Sharing API Versioning Strategies

API Versioning Berlin Engineering

While building Meltwater’s customer facing API, we have been working on a better versioning strategy. Our goal is to build a stable API for clients, but still continue to push out new features and enhancements in as short iterations as possible. Inspired by Stripe’s API, we have been working on implementing rolling,...

Lightweight Tests for your Nginx API Gateway

Nginx API Gateway Microservices Meltwater API Berlin Engineering

An API Gateway is a design pattern often used in microservice architecture to provide a single access point to the underlying system. While building the Meltwater API, we have frequently used this design pattern. In this article we explain why we have found it crucial to have meaningful tests for our API...

Angular Summit 2017 - Boston

Angular Boston Engineering

Last month, Meltwater gave me the opportunity to attend the Angular Summit in Boston. I jumped at the chance to travel into the city and learn about the latest iteration of Angular. Today I’d like to share my key takeaways from the event. You will get the most out of this post...

Meltwater is Sponsoring Craft Conf 2017

Meltwater is very happy to be Silver sponsor for Craft Conference 2017, which will take place in Budapest on April 27-28. Using the coupon code ‘MeltwaterSentMe’ you can now get 20% discount to you conference ticket. We really enjoyed Craft Conf last year, so we recommend you get your ticket now! Come...