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Our Journey from Database to Data Lake

Our Journey from Database to Data Lake

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My team at Meltwater is responsible for tracking how our customers consume the variety of content that we offer. We also build aggregate reports to help our Sales team understand customer behavior. That requires collecting and querying billions of usage events each month. In this post, I will share which technical solution...

Spotlight: Jeremiah Hoyet

Spotlight: Jeremiah Hoyet

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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. As...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.