Inside Meltwater Engineering.

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AWS Auto Scaling Groups may seem outdated in a world dominated by Serverless and Kubernetes, but they still have their place in Meltwater’s AWS infrastructure.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...

In early November our Front-end Guild hosted a workshop in Berlin. 13 engineers from offices around the world, met with our Application Framework team, to build a new framework-agnostic component library for our application teams. In this post, we explain how the Front-end Guild is helping Meltwater to break through team silos,...

For quite a while I am maintaining the Engineering blog for Meltwater at underthehood.meltwater.com. What flew under the radar for a number of years as a side project, is now pushing out multiple blog posts every month, and is helping the company both externally and internally. The blog attracts 50k unique page...