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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 was able to give back to the... Read the story

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.

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.