Donating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is …
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 …
You'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 o …
Kubernetes 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 mo …
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 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 Re …
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 …
Open 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 develo …
