Oliver Thylmann

Oliver Thylmann

Oliver is an Account Engineer and the CCO and Co-Founder, at Giant Swarm. When not working, Oliver can be found with his family, hosting events, or co-hosting the Crypto Nerd Show.

Posts by Oliver Thylmann
Let Me Introduce the Five Ts
Let Me Introduce the Five Ts

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 addi …

Jan 31, 2018 2 min read
A Trip From the Past to the Future of Kubernetes

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. …

Dec 21, 2017 3 min read
The Best of Rhineland Finals

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 i …

Jun 22, 2015 3 min read
Swarm Stories: Enterprise Architecture Management with leanIX
Swarm Stories: Enterprise Architecture Management with leanIX

Swarm Stories: Enterprise Architecture Management with leanIX

Today we are talking with one of our users, that we got introduced to by their investor Capnamic. We like introductions by VCs that are not invested i …

Jun 2, 2015 5 min read
Cologne Future Award for Digital Transformation

Cologne Future Award for Digital Transformation

Last Tuesday we won the Cologne Future Award, which was given out the first time as part of a yearly meeting called “Kölner Impulse” held at the Roton …

May 26, 2015 2 min read
Scaling for more users by allowing less
Scaling for more users by allowing less

Scaling for more users by allowing less

We had a lot of deep discussions at the office the last few days. Yes, we are creative thinkers, startup people to the core, always agile and flexible …

Mar 27, 2015 3 min read
Running an FI Ware Specific Enabler on Giant Swarm

Running an FI Ware Specific Enabler on Giant Swarm

Running webservices like PPnet - a simple social network - from the european FICONTENT project on Giant Swarm was no problem at all. When looking for …

Mar 18, 2015 2 min read
Blogging with Docker on Giant Swarm – First Steps with Ghost and Wordpress

Blogging with Docker on Giant Swarm – First Steps with Ghost and Wordpress

In the spirit of dogfooding I got my blog running on Giant Swarm, first I tried Ghost, then moved to Wordpress.

Feb 23, 2015 4 min read
Opening up our Free Alpha - Simple Microservice Infrastructure for You

Opening up our Free Alpha - Simple Microservice Infrastructure for You

In the last weeks we have been testing our microservice infrastructure with several close friends. We called this phase our “Closed Alpha”. At the sam …

Dec 3, 2014 2 min read

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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....

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