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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InsideAI agents that run where your data lives
There's a pattern I keep seeing in enterprise AI conversations. Someone shows an impressive demo — an agent that analyzes logs, responds to incidents, or automa…
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AIThe software inflection point: agents, OSS, and InnerSource
Over the past year, agentic development has gone from novelty to the way an increasing number of serious teams actually ship code. Naval Ravikant declared that …
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TechDonating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is evolving, …
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TechYour platform team can't build great templates while running around fixing clusters
Most platform teams know exactly what they should be building: the templates and self-service workflows that let developers go from idea to running service with…
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TechYou're probably still paying for a VMware licence you no longer need
For years, VMware was the obvious answer. You needed to run workloads, you needed isolation, you needed enterprise support, and VMware delivered all of that rel…
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TechKubernetes at the Edge: how KubeEdge brings cloud native orchestration to IoT and beyond
This post is based on a talk given by Antonia von den Driesch and Xavier Avrillier at KCD Warsaw 2025. Edge computing has quietly become one of the most importa…
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TechThe platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us
When we started doing platform work more than ten years ago, nobody called it "platform engineering." We were just trying to make it easier for people to run so…
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Cluster APILive migrating hundreds of Kubernetes clusters to Cluster API
This post is based on a talk given at KCD UK 2025 by Joe Salisbury.
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TechThree years, same questions: what platform teams told us at KubeCon
KubeCon EU landed in Amsterdam this year. It also landed in Amsterdam in 2023. Same city, same conference, three years apart — which gave us something most surv…