Inside Meltwater Engineering.

In September I traveled to the small town of Sitges outside of Barcelona to learn more about the future of technology. Full Stack Fest is a yearly, single track conference touching on a broad range of tech topics (frontend, backend, testing, new languages, etc). I was there to absorb some of the...

Since July 2019 I have been an intern at Meltwater in Budapest, working in the Foundation team that is focused on developer productivity. It has been a truly valuable experience to solve challenging real-life problems, that have an impact on the everyday lives of our developers. In this blogpost, I will share...

In late August 2019 Meltwater had the pleasure of hosting Zalando in our Berlin office for a knowledge sharing session about applying product management for internal platforms that improve software delivery performance. In this post we will explain how this meeting came to be, provide a sneak peak into the topics we...

For our fairhair.ai platform we enrich over 450 million documents such as news articles and social posts per day, with a dependency tree of more than 20 NLP syntactic and semantic enrichment tasks. We ingest these documents as a continuous stream of data and guarantee delivery of enriched documents within 5 minutes...

Meltwater has been providing sentiment analysis powered by machine-learning for more than 10 years. In 2009 we deployed our first models for English and German. Today, we support in-house models for 16 languages. In this blog post we discuss how we use deep learning and feedback loops to deliver sentiment analysis at...

You certainly like podcasts, don’t you? Jeff Campbell, an experienced Agile Coach working with Meltwater, recently joined forces with Vasco Duarte to record a series of podcasts for the Scrum Master Toolbox. In the podcast series they chose a Q&A format, where the audience submits questions that Jeff and Vasco then discussed...

One of our teams at Meltwater was recently faced with a problem that required relatively simple tasks applied to a large volume of data. To solve this we experimented with a pattern we call micro-pipelines, which are a sequence of microservices that work together to create efficient, fault tolerant systems. This post...

Benthos Lab is a website where users of the Benthos stream processor can write, format, execute and share their pipeline configurations. This app is now a critical part of our Benthos workflow, but it would never have existed were it not for Meltwater Hackathons. This post explains how we built Benthos Lab...

Meltwater’s Foundation team has invested heavily in Kubernetes to provide this platform as a service to other development teams. Many of those teams have migrated to Kubernetes already. Naturally our Foundation team learned a lot about what can, and will, go wrong when running a big enough Kubernetes cluster. Recently they attended...