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We build the platforms that help comms teams see around corners. Expect practical engineering lessons, data pipelines at scale, and product thinking from the people behind Meltwater.

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.

Developer Spotlight: Hans-Gunther Schmidt (Hans)

Developer Spotlight

Hallo! Hello! Merhaba! I am Hans, happily married to a beautiful Turkish wife, and live in Berlin since 2002. Born in Singapore as half German, half Filipino, I have since then travelled through various countries over the years until I ended up where I am right now: Berlin! And since the very...

meltwhatever Innovation Day at Meltwater

development innovation hackathon hackday

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...

Some more Appium

Meltwater Tech Talks Berlin

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.

Bookmarklets and Atlassian JIRA

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.

The Day the Internets Broke

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.

Debugging, Unicorns, Rails and Timeouts

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.

Berlin Riak Meetup at Meltwater

Meltwater Tech Talks Berlin

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!