
CoreOS Meetup Cologne, October 14, 2014 Recap
Yesterday we held the CoreOS Meetup for the first time in Cologne and it was a great success. Over 110 people had registered on Meetup and they sure t …

The History and Future of Hosting
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 To really understand what Giant Swarm is doing, it …

Welcome Dennis Benkert to the Swarm from the Symfony Community
We had just started talking about what Giant Swarm was supposed to be, involving Docker and CoreOS and other of the hip and coming tools out there, wh …

Transparent salaries – it's not for breaking workspace taboos
After lots of deliberation, we now have ‘transparent salaries’ internally that are based on a modified version of the one Buffer has. To sum it up: No …

Getting started with Docker and MeanJS
To get started with a new technology it’s great to have a small, yet non-trivial example. Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweigh …

Welcome to Giant Swarm
For our first post, we are cheating a bit. This has actually already gone out at a list of subscribers from our previous company. We thought an introd …