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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. Read the story

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.

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...

nh.js meetup - Welcoming all JavaScript Enthusiasts

meetup Manchester New Hampshire JavaScript

On October 14, 2015, Meltwater co-launched nh.js in conjunction with Thunderhead and Alexander Technology Group, nh.js is a meetup group for JavaScript programming enthusiasts in Manchester, New Hampshire. The group holds events at local startup incubator Alpha Loft and has thrived with regular monthly meetups, steadily increasing membership to just over 240...

Meltwater opens SHACK15 - data science co-working space in London

shack15 London

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...

Meltwater announced as Finalist for the SIIA CODiE Awards

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...

NLP Meetup: How Kickborn reinvented NLP

meetup Stockholm

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.