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Riak, Elasticsearch and numad walk into a Red Hat

Riak Meltwater

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 optimisations interfering with Riak performance. Read the story

Co-hosting an Elasticsearch meetup

Here’s another small update from Meltwater Engineering Sweden. We are co-hosting an Elastic(search) meetup in Gothenburg together with our friends at Findwise on April 9, 2015! When Findwise reached out we were eager to collaborate since this is something we have wanted to do for a long time. Please have a look...

Meltwater Engineering at CHARM in Gothenburg

CHARM is an annual career fair hosted by the university of Chalmers in Gothenburg, Sweden. Meltwater was one of over 170 companies from different areas of business attending CHARM to meet students and show what they can offer them during and after their studies. Our mission was to attract talented individuals to...

Post-it Art - How we threw a frog to the wall

Berlin

No animal was harmed in this, we promise :) Nevertheless, we indeed ended up with a frog on the wall in the Meltwater office in Berlin. In Berlin we have a team that uses Kermit, the well known Muppet character, as a mascot. So we thought it would be only appropriate to...

BE MORE - Sebastian Spier - Careers at Meltwater

Berlin

Meltwater recently produced the BE MORE video series that portrays various employees and their different roles in our company. Sebastian Spier, Development Manager in Berlin, was also interviewed for this series, so that you can learn a bit more about him and the work he and his team do for Meltwater. The...

Stockholm Natural Language Processing Meetup Kick-Off

Tech Talks

Meltwater just initiated the Stockholm Natural Language Processing Meetup, and on October 23, 2014, we hosted the kick-off session in our office in Stockholm. The idea of creating this Meetup emerged from a Knowledge Sharing and Tech Talks culture in Meltwater’s Data Enrichment Team. We thought that we could go beyond this...

Promises & Promise chaining at the Berlin AngularJS Meetup Group

Berlin Tech Talks mobile

We all can be proud to have such an active AngularJS community here in Berlin. Really. The Berlin AngularJS Meetup Group which organizes monthly events with lots of interesting talks, is responsible for a big part of the buzz around the framework. At the October AngularJS Meetup we were especially proud, as...

Meltwater sponsoring RailsCamp Germany 2014

Meltwater is proud to be sponsoring RailsCamp Germany 2014. And what is the best sponsor to be? Correct, Burger Sponsor! We are happy to help RailsCamp to provide yummy vegan burgers to all participants. So enjoy RailsCamp, and enjoy the burgers everybody. And of course, check out our open Rails position :)...

New design for the under the hood blog

Finally under the hood, our beloved Meltwater engineering blog, got a new design. We have been running this blog since January 2013 now, and here we talk about technologies that we use in our daily work, we introduce new team members, and post job offers. Blogging has been a great way for...

Designing Meerkat

Development Graphite Meerkat

Backend engineer Yury Smolsky explains how he built Meerkat. Meerkat is an alerting software, developed by Meltwater, that integrates tightly with Graphite. The Problem At the end of 2013 our team got tasked to improve the way we throttle our data fetches that are retrieving data from twitter. It is almost impossible,...