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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TechRunning an AI agent in a CI/CD pipeline: a how-to guide
Second part of our Envoy Gateway load testing series. Part one covered the test itself: the ephemeral clusters, the load generator, and how we got the metrics o…
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Platform EngineeringSpec-driven development: how we review plans, not pull requests
In September the whole Giant Swarm team was at our annual offsite in Greece, and one of the things we decided there is to open source the way we plan our work. …
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ProductIntroducing the Giant Swarm Agent Platform: Agents that run where your data lives
Your engineers are already running AI agents. Not as an approved rollout, but as something that crept in over the past year, wired into whatever tools got a tas…
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HistoryNine years of predicting cloud native, scored honestly
I started writing annual predictions in 2017 to find out whether I could read the industry. Nine years in, that's turned out to be one of the least interesting …
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InsideThe best AI agent is the one that disappears
Here's something most AI vendors won't tell you: the goal shouldn't be to run more AI. It should be to run less — eventually. I know that sounds strange coming …
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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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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…
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Developer ToolsAI agents are connecting to everything — and nobody's governing them
Somewhere in your stack, an agent is running that nobody formally authorized.