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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

podcast kubernetes foundation CNCF

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.

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...

Evolving Our User Personas in 2021

Evolving Our User Personas in 2021

UX personas diversity

Our UX team updated Meltwater’s user personas in 2021. Originally created in 2016, they needed to be revised due to changing markets, changes in our product, and the industry as a whole. In this post, Andy Proehl, our director of user experience design shares what we changed and what we learned in...

Meltwater Partners with Milaap to Support Indian Covid Relief

Meltwater Partners with Milaap to Support Indian Covid Relief

india covid donations

With so many of our own employees and their families impacted by the recent wave of Covid cases and deaths in India, mPowered, Meltwater’s employee-led diversity and inclusion group decided to take matters into their own hands and created a micro-donation site to raise money to specifically address the oxygen shortage in...

Interview: Geek Out with Meltwater on NLP

Interview: Geek Out with Meltwater on NLP

NLP AI sentiment analysis interview

Our very own Tim Furche, Director of Data Science at Meltwater, was interviewed by swordandthescript.com. They discussed topics such as the relationship between NLP and artificial intelligence (AI), the value of NLP to PR, as well as the enhancements that Meltwater has recently made to our NLP.