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 three costs inside the assembly tax
The platform engineering assembly tax is the cumulative cost of building and running a production platform from the open source ecosystem, not the tools themsel…
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ProductOverwhelmed by scale: how product thinking fixes platform teams
Most platform engineering stories start with success. A small team builds something useful, leadership notices, and suddenly that team is everyone's platform te…
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TechThe cloud native era killed VMware's lock-in. Here's what to run instead.
If you're evaluating alternatives to VMware, you'll find no shortage of content telling you which hypervisor to pick or how the licensing compares. What's harde…
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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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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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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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TechThe future is modular: what a decade of running Kubernetes taught us about platforms
Giant Swarm has been running production Kubernetes for enterprises for over ten years. If there's one thing that experience has taught us, it's that no two orga…
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GitOpsTreat the edge like infrastructure, not an exception
When teams tell us they’re struggling with Kubernetes at the edge, it’s rarely the cluster itself that’s failing. It’s the context.
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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…