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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ProductIntroducing the Giant Swarm Agent Platform: Agents that run where your data lives
Your engineers are already running AI agents. Not as an approved rollout, but as something that crept in over the past year, wired into whatever tools got a tas…
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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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TutorialKubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps in 2026: the Secret is the last mile
Part IV of the Understanding Basic Kubernetes Concepts series, updated from the 2016 original.
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HistoryNine years of predicting cloud native, scored honestly
I started writing annual predictions in 2017 to find out whether I could read the industry. Nine years in, that's turned out to be one of the least interesting …
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GitOpsConfiguration management at Giant Swarm: a historical overview
This is the first of three posts on configuration management at Giant Swarm.
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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 EngineeringThe 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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Team6 lessons learned from 6 years of building relationships with events
I've been managing relationships and organizing events at Giant Swarm for six years now. The two are more connected than the job title might suggest. The events…
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ProductOverwhelmed by scale: how product thinking fixes platform teams
Most platform engineering stories start with success. A small team builds something useful, leadership notices, and suddenly that team is everyone's platform te…