The 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 …
Two 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 …
The 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 n …
Treat 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.
The 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 ex …
Cloud 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 …
Rightsizing your platform team: escape the growth trap
This post explores why even well-intentioned platform engineering initiatives tend to result in teams becoming larger than expected over time. It exam …
How Platform-as-a-Product drives cloud native platform maturity
In the dynamic landscape of cloud native technologies and predictions, a standout trend emerges: platform engineering is the new cool kid in class! In …
Maximizing value with Kubernetes-as-a-Product: fulfilling the promise of the cloud
The cloud and DevOps promised to make our infrastructure faster, cheaper and easier. However, in many organizations, this promise, unfortunately, fell …
