The best AI agent is the one that disappears
Here's something most AI vendors won't tell you: the goal shouldn't be to run more AI. It should be to run less — eventually. I know that sounds stran …
AI agents that run where your data lives
There's a pattern I keep seeing in enterprise AI conversations. Someone shows an impressive demo — an agent that analyzes logs, responds to incidents, …
Donating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is …
The platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us
When we started doing platform work more than ten years ago, nobody called it "platform engineering." We were just trying to make it easier for people …
Two years, same questions: what platform teams told us at KubeCon
KubeCon EU landed in Amsterdam this year. It also landed in Amsterdam in 2023. Same city, same conference, three years apart — which gave us something …
The CRA's unexpected effect on open source
There's a conversation happening quietly in legal and engineering teams across Europe right now. It's not about whether to comply with the EU Cyber Re …
The future is modular: what a decade of running Kubernetes taught us about platforms
Giant Swarm has been running production Kubernetes for enterprises for over ten years. If there's one thing that experience has taught us, it's that n …
Why Giant Swarm isn’t “Just Ops”
There’s a quiet shift happening in how companies think about infrastructure. For a long time, running Kubernetes clusters — patching, monitoring, scal …
Cloud native predictions for 2025
Or better yet, listen to the Giant Conversations predictions episode here! Writing predictions is an interesting exercise (I've been doing this since …
