
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 …

GitOps in hybrid factory environments: simplifying deployments, hardening operations
If you're managing infrastructure across factory sites, edge locations, and cloud environments, you know the pain. Environments drift. Updates fall ou …

Why Giant Swarm isn’t “Just Ops”
There’s a quiet shift happening in how companies think about infrastructure. For a long time, running Kubernetes clusters — patching, monitoring, scal …

What works in Industrial IoT: lessons from real-world smart factories
Walk into any modern factory, and you’ll likely witness a jarring paradox: gleaming digital dashboards displaying real-time metrics — while operators …

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 …


