Inside Meltwater Engineering.

For three days in June, 238 people from Meltwater Product and Engineering organized and participated in our first remote unconference. The event featured 118 sessions focused on sharing knowledge, training, and problem solving. The event received an overwhelmingly positive response from the people that attended. In this blog post we take a...

Last week, Jeff Campbell and Scott Rosenblatt from Meltwater joined the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast. In this mega-episode on change, Jeff (long time contributor to the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast) and Scott (Director of Engineering at Meltwater) share their experience with Agile adoption in a large organization.

Meltwater recently released a new product feature called Signals, which helps our customers to identify business-critical events. In a previous post we introduced the concept of record linking, and presented our first approach for merging information from multiple sources for our Knowledge Graph. In this second post, we share how we improved...

Meltwater recently released a new product feature called Signals, which helps our customers to identify business-critical events. One of the technical systems powering these Signals is a custom-built Knowledge Graph. In this post we explain how we created a record linking service that utilizes machine learning and big data tactics to cluster...

The Meltwater Engineering teams have always been doing a lot of remote collaboration, due to the distributed nature of our company. Still, we have to get used to the work-from-home situation where we cannot even meet the colleagues in our own offices. In this post Niall Burkley from our middleware team shares...

In early spring 2018 Kubernetes went into Production at Meltwater and has seen great adoption from a lot of our engineering teams. Our Kubernetes cluster went from hosting 150 services at the end of 2018 to more than 800 services 9 months later. As part of our involvement in the Cloud Native...

Gene Connolly and Jeff Campbell joined the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast for an episode on boosting collaboration and promoting DevOps culture. Gene (Principal Software Developer at Meltwater) and Jeff (long time contributor to the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast) share their own experience organizing Internal Unconferences, and why this may be exactly what...

Our Application Framework team was tasked with assessing and improving application performance. Analyzing performance across the globe is challenging. The architectural layout of Meltwater’s application, as well as the way we organize our teams, lead to various challenges. This is the first post in a series about front-end performance. We will share...

To provide structured data from the Web to our customers, our team maintains a web crawler. The system downloads and processes 600K URLs per hour, resulting in huge amounts of logs. That costs a lot! In this blog post, Róbert from our Crawler team explains how we modified our architecture to save...