Dogfooding: How we run our own Website on Giant Swarm

Dogfooding: How we run our own Website on Giant Swarm

Our product is created by developers for developers. To make our product great, we believe that eating one’s own dog food is required. In this article …

Feb 18, 2015 14 min read
Docker and Related Services Enable a Future of Microservices for Everyone
Docker and Related Services Enable a Future of Microservices for Everyone

Docker and Related Services Enable a Future of Microservices for Everyone

Earlier in 2014 Benjamin Wootton wrote an insightful post on how microservices are not a free lunch. In that post he writes about the complexity of mi …

Feb 3, 2015 3 min read
Getting started with Go and Docker for an elegant Gopher Gala
Getting started with Go and Docker for an elegant Gopher Gala

Getting started with Go and Docker for an elegant Gopher Gala

This weekend is the Gopher Gala the world’s first Go(lang) distributed hackathon. As Golang is our primary and beloved language we figured it’s a perf …

Jan 23, 2015 2 min read
How Developer-Focussed Startups can Promote Transparency - Even in Legal

How Developer-Focussed Startups can Promote Transparency - Even in Legal

Two of our core principles at Giant Swarm are being developer-focused and striving for transparency.

Jan 21, 2015 2 min read
Getting Started with Microservices using Ruby on Rails and Docker

Getting Started with Microservices using Ruby on Rails and Docker

This is a guest post by Dirk Breuer.

Jan 13, 2015 9 min read
Holiday Creative Container Contest #HC3 - Build a Microservice App

Holiday Creative Container Contest #HC3 - Build a Microservice App

It’s holiday season and at least in Germany that means lots of sweets, christmas markets, and obligatory mulled wine. For a lot of us it also means fi …

Dec 15, 2014 1 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
Communications is About Conversations
Communications is About Conversations

Communications is About Conversations

After Marian wrote the great story of how he became our UX guy, now it’s my turn to also introduce myself. I actually also joined Giant Swarm nearly t …

Nov 24, 2014 3 min read
Getting Started with Java Development on Docker
Getting Started with Java Development on Docker

Getting Started with Java Development on Docker

This week Anna, Stephan, Timo and myself were at W-Jax a big conference in Munich on enterprise technologies and especially Java. The interest in Dock …

Nov 7, 2014 3 min read

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Here we show how we run our own website on our microservice infrastructure. It consists of a Flask/Python web app behind nginx, backed by Redis servers.

Feb 18, 2015

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