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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 building awesome technology. On December 3rd 2016, students... Read the story

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. First things first: What is Selenium? Selenium automates browsers :) What...

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. There were...

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...

Go to Conferences!

This April about 40 colleagues from Meltwater went to Craft Conference in Budapest. We did not plan for it that way, but it ended up like a mini kick-off for the Product & Engineering teams in Europe. It turned out to be an amazing conference with many great speakers that shared their...

Meltwater Product & Engineering - How We Work

We created a new video, describing how we work in Product & Engineering at Meltwater. We are quite proud of how the video turned out and we had lots of fun creating it. Therefore we hope you will like it to. If you like what you see, please check out our current...

Enriching Videos

data science

At Meltwater we are providing our customers with great tools to analyse news and social media, unlocking business critical insights. However all of this content is written text. Therefore some other forms of media remain unconquered. Formats that are becoming increasingly dominant in all online media. Today, we want to present our...