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 2024. Same city, same conference, two years apart — which gave us something m …
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 …
Unlocking 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. …
Cloud 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 n …
Cloud native predictions for 2023
This year was impressive, to say the least. I'll touch on some of 2022's achievements when I revisit my previous predictions. However, in a nutshell, …
