Oliver Thylmann

Oliver Thylmann

Oliver is an Account Engineer and the CCO and Co-Founder, at Giant Swarm. When not working, Oliver can be found with his family, hosting events, or co-hosting the Crypto Nerd Show.

Posts by Oliver Thylmann
The future is modular: what a decade of running Kubernetes taught us about platforms
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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 …

Feb 13, 2026 4 min read
Why Giant Swarm isn’t “Just Ops”
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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 …

Jul 8, 2025 3 min read
Cloud native predictions for 2025
Cloud native predictions 2025

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 …

Feb 21, 2025 5 min read
Cloud native predictions for 2024
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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 …

Feb 1, 2024 6 min read
Giant Swarm today had to let go of amazing people

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 …

Mar 30, 2023 1 min read
Cloud native predictions for 2023
Cloud native predictions for 2023

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, …

Dec 15, 2022 8 min read
Getting Things Done the Giant Swarm way
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Getting Things Done the Giant Swarm way

If we believe in something, we believe it all the way: our people, our customers, and our potential. We believe in the microservices architecture so m …

Nov 25, 2022 6 min read
Michael Müller joins Giant Swarm

Michael Müller joins Giant Swarm

This could have been an actual press release…

Feb 11, 2022 3 min read
Cloud native predictions for 2022
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Cloud native predictions for 2022

I made predictions for 2019 and 2020 and then we had this whole pandemic thing and it seems like I didn’t feel like predicting much for 2021, hence th …

Jan 5, 2022 7 min read

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After a decade running production Kubernetes, Giant Swarm evolved to a modular platform model. Here's why, including the trade-offs most vendors skip.

Feb 13, 2026

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