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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Platform EngineeringThe Gateway API shift: how Kubernetes networking actually works at scale
Kubernetes is declarative, modular, and cloud-agnostic. Until you hit the networking layer. For years, the Ingress API served as the default way to expose appli…
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GitOpsMaking Grafana remember: our journey to persistence with Grafana and PostgreSQL
To support our customers wanting a simpler, UI-driven way to manage Grafana dashboards ("ClickOps"), we moved from a stateless, GitOps-managed setup to a persis…
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TechOpen source is fueling the world: from developer's tool to strategic asset
Open source software has become ubiquitous in today's technology landscape, powering everything from web servers to cloud infrastructure. While developers have …
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GitOpsGitOps in hybrid factory environments: simplifying deployments, hardening operations
If you're managing infrastructure across factory sites, edge locations, and hybrid cloud environments, you know the pain. Environments drift. Updates fall out o…
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InsideWhy Giant Swarm isn’t “Just Ops”
There’s a quiet shift happening in how companies think about infrastructure. For a long time, running Kubernetes clusters — patching, monitoring, scaling — was …
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Smart FactoryWhat works in Industrial IoT: lessons from real-world smart factories
Walk into any modern factory, and you’ll likely witness a jarring paradox: gleaming digital dashboards displaying real-time metrics — while operators a few step…
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InsideThe Giant Swarm hiring journey
We've been a remote-first company since 2014, building a global team that solves complex platform engineering challenges together. This guide walks you through …
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Smart FactorySeamless Industrial IoT management: Azure Arc integration for hybrid environments
Modern manufacturers are under intense pressure to innovate, optimize operations, and leverage real-time data insights. As they pursue Industrial IoT (IIoT) ini…
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HistoryCloud native predictions for 2025
Or better yet, listen to the Giant Conversations predictions episode here! Writing predictions is an interesting exercise (I've been doing this since 2017). You…