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A Simple Tech Stack for your Engineering Blog

A Simple Tech Stack for your Engineering Blog

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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...

New Hampshire Volunteer Day #1

New Hampshire Volunteer Day #1

New Hampshire Manchester Volunteering CSR

A sea of yellow shirts made its way around Manchester as the New Hampshire Meltwater office volunteered for a day with a local organization, Families in Transition. When the volunteer committee first started planning this day, we never imagined how smoothly it would go, or how much fun we’d have! Impacting our...

The Meltwater Transformation on the Arrested DevOps Podcast

The Meltwater Transformation on the Arrested DevOps Podcast

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Joan Freed and Gene Connolly from our Manchester office were invited to the Arrested DevOps podcast with Jessica Kerr to discuss the DevOps transformation at Meltwater. In this podcast they are sharing where the transformation towards more autonomous teams with full end-to-end responsibility started in 2017, what we learned over the years...

Product Management for Internal Engineering Enablement Platforms - An Unconference

Product Management for Internal Engineering Enablement Platforms - An Unconference

Engineering Enablement Internal Software Delivery Platforms Knowledge Sharing Foundation Unconference

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...

And the Best Halloween Costume goes to ...

And the Best Halloween Costume goes to ...

Fun Office Culture Halloween

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...

The Full Stack Fest Experience 2019

The Full Stack Fest Experience 2019

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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...

Load-driven Shard Distribution in Elasticsearch - Story of an Internship

Load-driven Shard Distribution in Elasticsearch - Story of an Internship

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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...

Zalando & Meltwater kickoff Knowledge Sharing Around Managing Internal Software Delivery Platforms

Zalando & Meltwater kickoff Knowledge Sharing Around Managing Internal Software Delivery Platforms

Internal Software Delivery Platforms Zalando Knowledge Sharing Foundation

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...

Enriching 450M Docs Daily With a Boring Stream Processor

Enriching 450M Docs Daily With a Boring Stream Processor

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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...