Inside Meltwater Engineering.

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...

When you start at a new company, the first weeks are a turmoil of new things. The Meltwater Product & Engineering team is no different. When new colleagues join us, they go through an onboarding phase with parts that are standardized across the company, and other elements custom to their team. Still...

AWS Auto Scaling Groups may seem outdated in a world dominated by Serverless and Kubernetes, but they still have their place in Meltwater’s AWS infrastructure. One thing we felt was missing in Auto Scaling Groups are unique instance names. EC2 instances launched in the ASG are given the same Name tag, with...

Meltwater takes pride in having autonomous devops-enabled teams. This includes decisions on how to deploy their infrastructure. In this post Andy Desmarais is sharing an introduction to the newest deployment method that his team is experimenting with, the AWS Cloud Development Kit. You also find more articles like these on Andy’s blog...

This week Jeff Campbell and Amer Hamzeh (both alumni of Meltwater’s Foundation team) shared their experiences in the early days of the team on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast. This episode is especially helpful if you are in a team where you find yourself suffering a lot of interruptions.

We love Open Source here at Meltwater, and like most modern software companies, we would not be able to operate without it. One project that we are especially fond of is Benthos, “the stream processor for mundane tasks”. In this post we share how our relationship with Benthos started, how we are...

If one source says Microsoft’s headquarter is in Seattle, and another source has it in San Francisco, how do we determine which one is more plausible? The literature calls this the truth discovery or veracity problem. In this blog post Andreas Klintberg from our Knowledge Graph team shares how Fairhair.ai uses the...

In 2019 our Application Framework team and Front-end Guild have done a lot of work on a reusable front-end component library. In this post Andy Desmarais, a member of the Front-end Guild, is sharing an intro to the what and why of web components. You also find more articles like these on...