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We build the platforms that help comms teams see around corners. Expect practical engineering lessons, data pipelines at scale, and product thinking from the people behind Meltwater.

Accelerated Assimilation - Onboarding a new team member

Onboarding StretchCon

In this post we will look at how we at Meltwater speed up the onboarding of new Meltwarriors by assimilating them into the team and company culture, using these four simple tools. Meet Hannah. Tomorrow is her first day on her new job at Meltwater. She is a little anxious over fitting...

Meltwater Sponsoring Local Hack Day Berlin

Meltwater Product & Engineering is very proud to be an sponsor of Local Hack Day Berlin. We provide excellent food for the participants, and we hope that this will fuel the creative juices :) Local Hack Day is a “12 hour hack day that brings together the local hacker community to celebrate...

Featured in Oberbaum CityLights

Oberbaum CityLights is a quarterly magazine that covers the area where our beautiful Berlin office is located. In their recent edition they featured our very own Sam with a story about how he came to Berlin and how he is experiencing life and work in Berlin. If you want to read the...

Using Selenium-Server on Docker to run your Browser Tests

selenium docker e2e test test

If you have basic knowledge of automating web application tests through your browser, then this blog post is for you. We will be demonstrating how to use Selenium in a docker container, which makes it faster for you to get started.

Meltwater is Sponsoring Stretch Conference 2016

Meltwater is very happy to be Bronze sponsor for Stretch Conference 2016, which will take place in Budapest on December 1st/2nd. After a big group from Meltwater visited Craft Conference earlier this year, we were excited to see that the same organizers were hosting a leadership & management conference as well, so...

Meetup: Monitoring your AWS Costs

meetup Berlin AWS costs

On August 16th, we hosted the AWS User Group Meetup in the Meltwater Berlin Office. It was our first time hosting the AWS meetup and we would like to share with you what the meetup talks were about and also our experience in hosting a meetup in our Berlin office.

Getting the most out of your RabbitMQ cluster

RabbitMQ

At Meltwater we use RabbitMQ for messaging. We have several clusters and had a need for a new cluster. This made us ask the question: how is the message rate affected by the hardware chosen for the cluster? Should we go for more CPU cores? Or maybe faster disks? Are there other...

Mob Programming - the Good, the Bad and the Great.

Agile Gothenburg

After a particularly rough couple of months last year, our team (of six) decided it was time for a radical move. At the point we were so downtrodden that our small hope that it would at least provide something new was enough of a motivation for us to decide on a two...