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 …
Making Grafana remember: our journey to persistence with Grafana and PostgreSQL
To support our customers wanting a simpler, UI-driven way to manage Grafana dashboards ("ClickOps"), we moved from a stateless, GitOps-managed setup t …
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 …
GitOps in hybrid factory environments: simplifying deployments, hardening operations
If you're managing infrastructure across factory sites, edge locations, and cloud environments, you know the pain. Environments drift. Updates fall ou …
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 …
What works in Industrial IoT: lessons from real-world smart factories
Walk into any modern factory, and you’ll likely witness a jarring paradox: gleaming digital dashboards displaying real-time metrics — while operators …
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 …
Seamless Industrial IoT management: Azure Arc integration for hybrid environments
Modern manufacturers are under intense pressure to innovate, optimize operations, and leverage real-time data insights. As they pursue Industrial IoT …
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 …
