
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 …

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.

Getting Started with Microservices using Ruby on Rails and Docker
This is a guest post by Dirk Breuer.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

What happens when you put the whole Giant Swarm team in a house for a week?
Time flies, it’s already been more than a week since we had our first offsite at the White Rabbits Mansion. For one week the whole Giant Swarm team go …

How I Became Giant Swarm’s UX Guy
At Giant Swarm, we'd like to make it a habit to write about every new team member that joins the initial seven folks. After Dennis, I'm new hire numbe …