The Giant Swarm Blog
We publish when we have something to say - insights we believe in, lessons we've learned, and ideas that might just help you build better.
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Platform EngineeringHiring, tools, overload, automation: one cost wearing four names
Ask a platform team to describe what's getting in the way of their work, and you'll usually hear about four things: hiring the right people, too many tools for …
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Platform EngineeringDiagnosing the integration tax: three costs, three fixes
The platform engineering integration tax is the cumulative cost of building and running a production platform from the open source ecosystem, not the tools them…
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Platform EngineeringThe CNCF landscape has 230+ tools. Choosing from it is where platform teams get stuck.
The CNCF just celebrated its 10th anniversary. What started with Kubernetes and around twenty member organizations has grown into an ecosystem of over 230 proje…
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Platform EngineeringThe platform assembly tax: a framework for what platform teams keep describing
Ask a platform team to describe what's getting in the way of their work, and you'll usually hear about four things: hiring the right people, too many tools for …
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Platform EngineeringFrom three clusters to eighty: how scale shapes platform engineering
"Platform engineering" is one of the more elastic terms in the industry. A team running three clusters and a team running eighty both use it to describe their w…
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Platform Engineering
The three costs inside the assembly tax
The platform engineering assembly tax is the cumulative cost of building and running a production platform from the open source ecosystem, not the tools themsel…
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TechYour platform team can't build great templates while running around fixing clusters
Most platform teams know exactly what they should be building: the templates and self-service workflows that let developers go from idea to running service with…
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TechKubernetes at the Edge: how KubeEdge brings cloud native orchestration to IoT and beyond
This post is based on a talk given by Antonia von den Driesch and Xavier Avrillier at KCD Warsaw 2025. Edge computing has quietly become one of the most importa…
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Cluster APILive migrating hundreds of Kubernetes clusters to Cluster API
This post is based on a talk given at KCD UK 2025 by Joe Salisbury.