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.
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
TechThe CRA's unexpected effect on open source
There's a conversation happening quietly in legal and engineering teams across Europe right now. It's not about whether to comply with the EU Cyber Resilience A…
-
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…
-
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 …
-
TechUnlocking smart factory success
At the heart of every smart factory initiative lies a desire for transformation — production that's not just more efficient, but fundamentally better. Yet accor…
-
TechCloud native predictions for 2024
Hard to fathom we’re already a month into 2024! With the new year comes speculation about what’s on the horizon. Peeking around the corner at what’s next is one…
-
TeamPlatform engineering: it’s not a tool stack; it’s a set of capabilities
Platform engineering is the hottest topic in 2023. While some say DevOps is dead and platform engineering is now replacing DevOps, others focus more on the enab…