Working with Adults — or Why Micromanagement Sucks Big Time
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” — Chinese proverb With COVID-19, we’re currently experi …
Part 1: How the Cloud-Native Stack Helps Writing Minimal Microservices
Part 1: The Kubernetes Platform An in-depth series on how to easily get centralized logging, better security, performance metrics, and authentication …
Taking Our Roadmap Public
At Giant Swarm, everything we do is intertwined with our values. The decision to take our roadmap public is no exception. We began by challenging the …
Resilience, Remote Work, and Remaining Positive
When you find out your normal daily lifestyle is called “quarantine”.
Why We’re (Not) Working with Headhunters/Recruitment Agencies/Executive Search Companies
Dear headhunter/executive search specialist/recruitment agent/etc. Please insert your title, you know what I mean. ;-)
Surviving and Thriving: How To Really Work Remotely
Due to the dreaded coronavirus, companies left and right are switching to remote-first work tactics. Be it Github or Coinbase, Google Dublin or Twitte …
Q1 2020 Hackathon: What Can a Non-Techie Do?
It was the last full week of March. The last three days before a bunch of us had planned to go to Amsterdam to attend KubeCon EU 2020. It was Giant Sw …
Summing Up: Container Image Building
As we draw a line under this series about the state of the art of container image building, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on what we’ve discov …
The Graphic Guide to Evolving Cloud-native Deployments
This blog post was inspired by a talk given by Timo Derstappen, Giant Swarm Co-Founder and CTO.
