
See everything, own your data: the Giant Swarm Observability Platform
Most platform teams have an observability stack. Few would call it finished. You start with metrics, bolt on logging, realize you need traces, wire up …

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 …

AI agents are connecting to everything — and nobody's governing them
Somewhere in your stack, an agent is running that nobody formally authorized.

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 …

Treat the edge like infrastructure, not an exception
When teams tell us they’re struggling with Kubernetes at the edge, it’s rarely the cluster itself that’s failing. It’s the context.

Infrastructure for AI is finally getting a standard
Over the past year, AI has exploded into production, from experimental models to customer-facing apps and internal copilots. But while the models evol …

The Gateway API shift: how Kubernetes networking actually works at scale
Kubernetes is declarative, modular, and cloud-agnostic. Until you hit the networking layer. For years, the Ingress API served as the default way to ex …

Making Grafana remember: our journey to persistence with Grafana and PostgreSQL
To support our customers wanting a simpler, UI-driven way to manage Grafana dashboards ("ClickOps"), we moved from a stateless, GitOps-managed setup t …

Open source is fueling the world: from developer's tool to strategic asset
Open source software has become ubiquitous in today's technology landscape, powering everything from web servers to cloud infrastructure. While develo …


