The New Make or Buy Decision in Cloud - Your Own Docker PaaS
A lot has been said about how containerization and Docker enables companies to build and run their own PaaS the same way big companies like Facebook, …
Building a Smart Client-Side JavaScript “Discuss on Hacker News” Button
At Giant Swarm, we build infrastructure for developers, and of course we want our content to be visible amongst developers, too. To foster the distrib …
Deploy a Meteor Application in Under 1 Minute
Recently, we had someone on Twitter asking us if we support Meteor. As we were not sure, I thought challenge accepted we could just try it out. And it …
The Best of Rhineland Finals
Henning, Timo, and me have never been ones for startup competitions, especially those you need to pay for, and we still think a lot about the effort i …
Reliability Is Not Enough - Building Resilient Applications With Containerized Microservices
When we talk about applications and their deployment in production, we often talk about reliability as a non-functional requirement. What is it that w …
Step by Step Towards Zero Downtime Deployment - Rolling Updates are Here
Update: With swarm CLI 0.18.0 we introduced different update strategies that you can choose from. The one described in this blog post is the default o …
Swarm Stories: Enterprise Architecture Management with leanIX
Today we are talking with one of our users, that we got introduced to by their investor Capnamic. We like introductions by VCs that are not invested i …
Cologne Future Award for Digital Transformation
Last Tuesday we won the Cologne Future Award, which was given out the first time as part of a yearly meeting called “Kölner Impulse” held at the Roton …
10 Insights of Doing International Recruiting
Before I allow myself any TL;DR, I have to mention a very important aspect: This blogpost is, beside the topic hiring, about people, stereotypes, and …
