Overwhelmed 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 p …
Why we stopped gatekeeping our personal development budget
This year I'm spending my personal development budget on Thai lessons, therapy, and a scooter safety course. I'm not sure all three of those would hav …
The 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 stran …
AI 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, …
Your platform team can't build great templates while running around fixing clusters
Most platform teams know exactly what they should be building: the templates and self-service workflows that let developers go from idea to running se …
See everything, own your data: the Giant Swarm Observability Platform
Most platform teams have an observability stack. Few would call it finished. You start with metrics, bolt on logging, realize you need traces, wire up …
Infrastructure for AI is finally getting a standard
Over the past year, AI has exploded into production, from experimental models to customer-facing apps and internal copilots. But while the models evol …
Why 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, scal …
The 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 yo …
