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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, point-in-time versioning for our API. We have put... Read the story

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...

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...