Joe Salisbury

Joe Salisbury is VP Engineering at Giant Swarm. He’s tasked with making Giant Swarm an attractive work environment for engineers and generally a dope place to work. When he’s not ensuring engineering operational excellence, he can be found rowing and playing D&D, but just not at the same time... yet.

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Tech

Scaling on-demand Prometheus servers with sharding

Since our initial implementation, a lot of the numbers in our equations changed. Let's explore scaling on-demand Prometheus servers with sharding. An investigation from Giant Swarm.

Aug 13, 2021 |

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Taking Care Remotely

Wellbeing and mental health are current topics inside Giant Swarm, as well as in the larger community. Given that, this is still a delicate and tough topic to talk about - ironically, this blog post itself required a fair (read:...

Jan 16, 2020 |

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Monitoring On-Demand Kubernetes Clusters with Prometheus

Monitoring our infrastructure is of paramount importance at Giant Swarm, as our customers rely on us to provide fully-operated clusters that power some of the world’s largest companies. One of the major tools in our observability suite is Prometheus, which...

Feb 27, 2018 |

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Continuous Deployment of On-Prem Kubernetes Infrastructure

With the creation of our Giantnetes stack, the team at Giant Swarm decided that we should continuously deploy our entire fancy new infrastructure. CI/CD is good, we should do more of it. This post describes the first iteration of our...

Jul 10, 2017 |

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On Running your Local Development Environment in Kubernetes

At Giant Swarm, I work on Microservice Infrastructure and a lot of my work is centered around improving how we run clusters as well as software on clusters. However, this work isn’t reflected in my local development environment – as...

Nov 28, 2016 |

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