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, Google, and Spotify have it internally. Some might even say that Docker needs the...
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, Google, and Spotify have it internally. Some might even say that Docker needs the...
At Giant Swarm, we build infrastructure for developers, and of course we want our content to be visible amongst developers, too. To foster the distribution and discussion of our blog posts on Hacker News, we built ourselves a little button...
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 was easier than I thought. If you’re really in a hurry...
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 involved versus the potential benefit of such events. After the Cologne Future Award,...
When we talk about applications and their deployment in production, we often talk about reliability as a non-functional requirement. What is it that we really want from applications and their deployment when we say “reliable”? Usually, we mean that we...
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 one-by-one strategy. There’s another strategy called hot-swap, which gives you zero downtime no matter how...
