Step by Step Towards Zero Downtime Deployment - Rolling Updates are Here
Update: With swarm CLI 0.18.0 we introduced different update strategies that you can choose from. The one described in this blog post is the default o …
Swarm Stories: Enterprise Architecture Management with leanIX
Today we are talking with one of our users, that we got introduced to by their investor Capnamic. We like introductions by VCs that are not invested i …
Cologne Future Award for Digital Transformation
Last Tuesday we won the Cologne Future Award, which was given out the first time as part of a yearly meeting called “Kölner Impulse” held at the Roton …
10 Insights of Doing International Recruiting
Before I allow myself any TL;DR, I have to mention a very important aspect: This blogpost is, beside the topic hiring, about people, stereotypes, and …
Deploy a Ghost Blog in 10 Minutes with Giant Swarm
Right before I started working fulltime at Giant Swarm, I authored a containerized deployment of Ghost which could be used by anyone to deploy a blog …
Microservices Finally Deliver on the Promises of SOA
We often hear that microservices should be loosely or de-coupled. The former reminds many software engineers of what SOA already stood for. Thus, ther …
Why I Joined a German Infrastructure Startup
In late October last year, I visited Germany for the first time since I was a teenager. The world has changed dramatically over the 33 years since, bu …
Scaling for more users by allowing less
We had a lot of deep discussions at the office the last few days. Yes, we are creative thinkers, startup people to the core, always agile and flexible …
Interning - Building a Status Page for Microservice Clusters
As Marian and Puja before me, I want to introduce myself. 25 years ago I was born in east Germany and moved to a small city near Cologne a few years l …
