Oliver Thylmann

Oliver is an Account Engineer in Team Teddyfriends as well as the CCO and Co-Founder of Giant Swarm. A self-described geek and serial first adopter, when he's not driving customers to success or hanging out with his family, he can be found hosting our Giant Swarm & Friends evenings or co-hosting the Crypto Nerd Show.

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Tech

Cloud-Native Predictions for 2020

Two years ago, I wrote predictions about Kubernetes and was dead on, which obviously means I was completely motivated to write another one, entitled “State of Kubernetes in 2019”. And so, I am now being nudged to write another one...

Jan 22, 2020 |

7 min read

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The State of Kubernetes 2019

Last year I wrote a post entitled A Trip From the Past to the Future of Kubernetes. In it, I talked about the KVM and AWS versions of our stack and the imminent availability of our Azure release. I also...

Jan 3, 2019 |

4 min read

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How Giant Swarm Enables a New Workflow

By now we all know that Amazon AWS changed computing forever and it actually started as an internal service. The reason for the existence of AWS is pretty easy to understand once you understand Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Sit tight....

Sep 18, 2018 |

3 min read

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Let Me Introduce the Five Ts

There are changes about at Giant Swarm and one of these is the fact that we are moving offices again. Interestingly the reason is not that we are adding three people, but that we are moving to a smaller office....

Jan 31, 2018 |

2 min read

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A Trip From the Past to the Future of Kubernetes

Boy what a ride this past year has been. In the beginning of 2016, after having been working in the container space for 2 years already (Docker was 0.7 when we started building our own orchestration platform), we moved all...

Dec 21, 2017 |

3 min read

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The Best of Rhineland Finals

Henning, Timo, and me have never been ones for startup competitions, especially those you need to pay for, and we still think a lot about the effort involved versus the potential benefit of such events. After the Cologne Future Award,...

Jun 22, 2015 |

2 min read