Inside Meltwater Engineering.

The Meltwater Mobile application development team was formed in 2014 and has grown from 3 to 18 members. We build native apps for both iOS and Android platforms. Usage of the native apps has grown in sync with the growth of the team size. In this post we want to share how...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...