Deploy a Ghost Blog in 10 Minutes with Giant Swarm
Right before I started working fulltime at Giant Swarm, I authored a containerized deployment of Ghost which could be used by anyone to deploy a blog …
Microservices Finally Deliver on the Promises of SOA
We often hear that microservices should be loosely or de-coupled. The former reminds many software engineers of what SOA already stood for. Thus, ther …
Why I Joined a German Infrastructure Startup
In late October last year, I visited Germany for the first time since I was a teenager. The world has changed dramatically over the 33 years since, bu …
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 …
Interning - Building a Status Page for Microservice Clusters
As Marian and Puja before me, I want to introduce myself. 25 years ago I was born in east Germany and moved to a small city near Cologne a few years l …
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 …
How Docker Made Coding and Testing New Projects Fun and Accessible
With Docker’s 2nd birthday coming up soon, I thought about what Docker has changed for me personally in this time and what that could mean for a wider …
The Fun of Experimenting with a more Advanced Microservice Application - Building a Slack "Done This" Tracker
This is a guest post by Ad Van der Veer.
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.
