Oliver Thylmann

Oliver Thylmann

Oliver is an Account Engineer in Team Teddyfriends as well as the CCO and Co-Founder of Giant Swarm. A self-described geek and serial first adopter, when he's not driving customers to success or hanging out with his family, he can be found hosting our Giant Swarm & Friends evenings or co-hosting the Crypto Nerd Show.

Posts by Oliver Thylmann
Scaling for more users by allowing less
Scaling for more users by allowing less

Scaling for more users by allowing less

We had a lot of deep discussions at the office the last few days. Yes, we are creative thinkers, startup people to the core, always agile and flexible …

Mar 27, 2015 3 min read
Running an FI Ware Specific Enabler on Giant Swarm

Running an FI Ware Specific Enabler on Giant Swarm

Running webservices like PPnet - a simple social network - from the european FICONTENT project on Giant Swarm was no problem at all. When looking for …

Mar 18, 2015 2 min read
Blogging with Docker on Giant Swarm – First Steps with Ghost and Wordpress

Blogging with Docker on Giant Swarm – First Steps with Ghost and Wordpress

In the spirit of dogfooding I got my blog running on Giant Swarm, first I tried Ghost, then moved to Wordpress.

Feb 23, 2015 4 min read
Opening up our Free Alpha - Simple Microservice Infrastructure for You

Opening up our Free Alpha - Simple Microservice Infrastructure for You

In the last weeks we have been testing our microservice infrastructure with several close friends. We called this phase our “Closed Alpha”. At the sam …

Dec 3, 2014 2 min read
The History and Future of Hosting

The History and Future of Hosting

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 To really understand what Giant Swarm is doing, it …

Oct 2, 2014 9 min read
Welcome Dennis Benkert to the Swarm from the Symfony Community

Welcome Dennis Benkert to the Swarm from the Symfony Community

We had just started talking about what Giant Swarm was supposed to be, involving Docker and CoreOS and other of the hip and coming tools out there, wh …

Sep 29, 2014 2 min read
Welcome to Giant Swarm

Welcome to Giant Swarm

For our first post, we are cheating a bit. This has actually already gone out at a list of subscribers from our previous company. We thought an introd …

Sep 16, 2014 2 min read

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Yes, we are creative thinkers, startup people to the core, always agile and flexible but … we have mental models too and they make you get stuck. We were in our tiny little box.

Mar 27, 2015

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