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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Giant Swarm today had to let go of amazing people
Today we are sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Giant Swarm’s history. We’ve decided to reduce the size of our team by 11% and h …
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, …
