Inside Meltwater Engineering.

In July 2014, Meltwater decided to hold its first ever Innovation Day, called meltwhatever day! The goal of the Innovation Day was to take some time and let our engineers focus their energy on something of their own choosing – something that they were passionate and excited about, that was important or...

To everybody who attended our Meltwater Tech Talk about appium in Berlin yesterday: Thank you. To the rest: Where have you been? :) This post lists further references about appium that were promised during the talk. We were lucky enough to not only have Kuba Siemiątkowski in the house but also Sauce...

We are very excited to announce that on July 1st, 2014 we will have Kuba Siemiątkowski (a front-end developer at Sauce Labs) in our Berlin office, to give a talk titled Testing clicks without Apple’s help - Mobile testing with appium. This presentation is open for everybody, so if you are interested...

Bookmarklets are bringing back hackability to the internet. They help automating little repetitive tasks and making webpages dance. In this post Amer Hamzeh tells us how he fell in love with bookmarklets and why. How did I find out about bookmarklets? My first encounter with bookmarklets was while I was doing a...

On Tuesday, a bug in the OpenSSL library was disclosed. It even got a name - Heartbleed - and a logo. And it turned out to be as severe as it can get. OpenSSL is a library widely used on the internet to secure communications. When you access a page via https,...

The goal of this post is to describe a debugging session, and different possible approaches for debugging in general. It also contains some tips and tricks to use with unicorn and Rails to debug request timeouts. I usually enjoy debugging because of the unknown thing to fix, like a pirate finding a...

On Feburary 27th Meltwater was lucky enough to host the Berlin Riak Meetup in our office at Rotherstraße in Berlin. We were happy to have close to 30 Berlin Riaktors gather for talks by basho and rovio, yes the guys behind Angry Birds! After some beers and plenty of pizza, Richard Cox...

The volume of brand mentions online is exploding. With this explosion is an expectation that the “owners” of these brands will not only participate in the conversation, but take in this feedback and make necessary adjustments to products, ads, distribution, customer service, etc. To do this effectively, Meltwater needs to help company...

Salut! Ni Hao! I am Sam, and I became a member of the Meltwater family as a Senior Software Engineer a few months ago. In this blog post, let’s talk about me for a second. I happened to enter our complex world through lovely Porto-Novo in Benin, West Africa. To date, I...