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 …
Running an FI Ware Specific Enabler on Giant Swarm
Running webservices like PPnet - a simple social network - from the european FICONTENT project on Giant Swarm was no problem at all. When looking for …
How Docker Made Coding and Testing New Projects Fun and Accessible
With Docker’s 2nd birthday coming up soon, I thought about what Docker has changed for me personally in this time and what that could mean for a wider …
The Fun of Experimenting with a more Advanced Microservice Application - Building a Slack "Done This" Tracker
This is a guest post by Ad Van der Veer.
Blogging with Docker on Giant Swarm – First Steps with Ghost and Wordpress
In the spirit of dogfooding I got my blog running on Giant Swarm, first I tried Ghost, then moved to Wordpress.
Dogfooding: How we run our own Website on Giant Swarm
Our product is created by developers for developers. To make our product great, we believe that eating one’s own dog food is required. In this article …
