The 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 …
From 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 descri …
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 too …
Your 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 se …
Kubernetes 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 mo …
Live migrating hundreds of Kubernetes clusters to Cluster API
This post is based on a talk given at KCD UK 2025 by Joe Salisbury.
The Giant Swarm hiring journey
We've been a remote-first company since 2014, building a global team that solves complex platform engineering challenges together. This guide walks yo …
Introducing Giant Conversations
If you're a marketer in 2024, it's only a matter of time before someone suggests a podcast. 😅 In fact, you might be working on your company's podcast …
Looking back: a tour of blog posts
We’re embarking on an expedition through the archives of Giant Swarm’s blog.
