Inside Meltwater Engineering.

Last week, a group of 25 practitioners met in the Meltwater office in Berlin for an unconference about applying product management to internal platforms in the Engineering Enablement domain. In this post we share some of the topics discussed at the unconference, and how we want to take this inter-company exchange about...

Halloween approaches each year as a surprise, at least to some of us. Especially as Meltwater has offices in 55 locations across the world, keeping track of the regional customs for a given occasion can be tricky (see Geography of Halloween for example). Hence we are fortunate to have local culture ambassadors...

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...