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Meltwater gives to FIRST

Meltwater gives to FIRST

FIRST diversity sponsorship

Meltwater is proud to have donated to the FIRST diversity & inclusion program! FIRST® is a global non-profit focused on advancing STEM education, and inspiring young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators. The DE&I program at FIRST helps to serve an inclusive and diverse audience, reflecting the population of...

IWA and NPM - A recipe for stable deployments

IWA and NPM - A recipe for stable deployments

IWA npm deployment immutable web app

Deploying web applications can be extremely challenging. Even if your application only relies on a single API endpoint, many mistakes can still make it to production just by having to rebuild your javascript and CSS artifacts for each environment. That’s where Immutable Web Apps and npm can step in to help out!...

Spotlight: Patrick Bardo

Spotlight: Patrick Bardo

spotlight gothenburg

At the heart of Meltwater Engineering are the employees who find ways to collaborate around the world. In our Spotlight series we will introduce you to new hires as well as veterans from across the organization, and give you insights into their day to day from North Carolina to Hong Kong. Today...

Reinventing the Water Cooler Conversation

Reinventing the Water Cooler Conversation

social connections coffee chat bots

In the midst of the pandemic and months into working from home, Hardik Gupta, a data scientist at Meltwater, was missing the social connection of going into work, specifically the spontaneous conversations with people from other business functions and teams. He decided to experiment with emulating these conversations remotely and #mw-coffee-chat was...

Maturing as an Agile Coach

Maturing as an Agile Coach

Agile Learning Continuous Improvement

Have you ever been asked “how does the impact of an Agile Coach change as the team matures”? In an attempt to explore this question I will describe my experience as an Agile Coach working with one team for 2 years. I will examine how my impact within that team changed during...

Migrating DynamoDB between AWS accounts using AWS Glue

Migrating DynamoDB between AWS accounts using AWS Glue

AWS AWS Glue DynamoDB DB Migration

AWS is a wonderful ecosystem in terms of infrastructure, but the UX and the sheer number of domain specific terms can be overwhelming when you are trying to understand how to do things. Migrating a database from one account to another turned out to be more complicated than we first assumed. In...

Meltwater on the New Stack Makers Podcast

Meltwater on the New Stack Makers Podcast

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Two members of the Meltwater Foundation team, Federico and Simone, contributed to the CNCF End User Technology Radar, a guide for evaluating cloud native technologies. Recently they were interviewed by the New Stack Makers Podcast about the report’s findings on how the Kubernetes multicluster management landscape is taking shape. CNCF Assesses the...

Quick Feedback Made Easy Today

Quick Feedback Made Easy Today

feedback continuous improvement

Have you ever worked with somebody, and you only found out after 6 months that they had feedback for you that would have greatly improved the way you collaborate. However, somehow that feedback was never given? We have certainly seen this happening in our Engineering teams, and hence we started to experiment...

Meltwater sponsors the CNCF scholarship program

Meltwater sponsors the CNCF scholarship program

CNCF scholarship diversity sponsorship

We are happy to announce that Meltwater is sponsoring the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s scholarship program. The program offers diversity and need-based scholarship to individuals who may not otherwise have the opportunity to attend CNCF events. The Product & Engineering team at Meltwater strongly believes in the value of such programs, and...