Inside Meltwater Engineering.

Meltwater is proud to present SHACK15, London’s first co-working space dedicated to data science startups. With the distinct advantage of Meltwater being such a global company, we are able to offer our members automatic access to a network of hot desks from Silicon Valley to Sydney via New York, Berlin, Stockholm and...

Today, we are very proud to announce that Meltwater was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards in the category for Best Content Analytics Solution! The CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. To get to the finals, we had to demo...

On 22nd of March, Meltwater’s Stockholm NLP Meetup hosted a session about the technological development in a startup company called Kickborn. In this meetup Harinder Bedi, the founder of Kickborn, described a cognitive information retrieval system that understands the intent of questions and provides answers to them. The algorithm of the Kickborm...

On 3rd of March, Meltwater hosted a session of our Continous Delivery Meetup, with the fitting topic Continuously Everything. We hosted these sessions at our beautiful office at Kungsportsavenyen in the middle of Gothenburg. This time around we had three presenters from Meltwater and about 50 attendees from inside and outside the...

On 17th of February, Meltwater’s Stockholm NLP Meetup hosted a session about clinical text retrieval, presented by Professor Hercules Dalianis from Stockholm University. In this talk, Professor Dalianis described different challenges to analyse clinical texts to facilitate doctors in Swedish healthcare entities for better diagnosis and treatment. It was quite fascinating to...

On October 15th we proudly hosted SF-Text at our Meltwater HQ in San Francisco. SF-Text is a popular NLP themed meetup in the Bay Area. The event was well-attended (+70 people) with plenty of NLP professionals and experts in the audience. Our very own Babak Rasolzadeh (Director of Engineering, Data Science, Meltwater)...

We recently decided to open source our high-performance batch-percolator plugin for Elasticsearch. This article tells the story of how and why it was developed, and also gives you some insight into the scalability and performance problems we face daily in our engineering team. Early 2014, we were in the midst of migrating...

“Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.” - http://coderetreat.org/about “a day to celebrate passion and software craftsmanship” - http://globalday.coderetreat.org The Meltwater Engineers are very passionate about software craftsmanship so it was an easy decision to host and sponsor the inaugural #gdcr event in...

What starts like a joke is really a serious post about large distributed systems. This is what we run at meltwater - and while there is a lot of fun designing and administering these systems, we run into odd problems from time to time. In this case: some well-meant Red Hat memory...