For quite a while I am maintaining the Engineering blog for Meltwater at underthehood.meltwater.com. What flew under the radar for a number of years as a side project, is now pushing out multiple blog posts every month, and is helping the company both externally and internally. The blog attracts 50k unique page views per year, so it looks like the content we share is useful for the readers.

This post shares the tech stack we use, and the editing process we apply when releasing blog posts. If you want to start an Engineering blog at your company, this post may help you.

A sea of yellow shirts made its way around Manchester as the New Hampshire Meltwater office volunteered for a day with a local organization, Families in Transition. When the volunteer committee first started planning this day, we never imagined how smoothly it would go, or how much fun we’d have! Impacting our local community, strengthening team bonds, and having fun! All in a day’s work.

In this post we are sharing how this event unfolded, and what your office or team can do to organize a volunteering day of your own.

Joan Freed and Gene Connolly from our Manchester office were invited to the Arrested DevOps podcast with Jessica Kerr to discuss the DevOps transformation at Meltwater.

In this podcast they are sharing where the transformation towards more autonomous teams with full end-to-end responsibility started in 2017, what we learned over the years and what’s next for us.

Last week, a group of 25 practitioners met in the Meltwater office in Berlin for an unconference about applying product management to internal platforms in the Engineering Enablement domain.

In this post we share some of the topics discussed at the unconference, and how we want to take this inter-company exchange about Engineering Enablement forward. Come join us!

Halloween approaches each year as a surprise, at least to some of us. Especially as Meltwater has offices in 55 locations across the world, keeping track of the regional customs for a given occasion can be tricky (see Geography of Halloween for example). Hence we are fortunate to have local culture ambassadors that keep their national customs alive and show us how it is done.

So without further ado, this year the prize for the best Halloween costume goes to Agile Coach Jeff from our Raleigh office. Make sure you read the tasks on the Kanban board to get the full story! We love it Jeff!