Team Phoenix. Polish mountains. One Giant Swarm scarf. One person in shorts (conditions: snowy).
This is what Giant Mansions week looks like when your team takes "go big" literally.
@vxav.bsky.social and Antonia stitched together a Kubernetes cluster from two different hypervisors.
It worked. It was also a terrible idea. 🤠
They're sharing what they learned at @cnsmunich.bsky.social — and how Kamaji let them solve the same problem without the custom glue.
Infrastructure decisions made total sense when you made them. (The world just kept moving.) Manuel Gawert on what a VMware exit actually looks like in practice.
Turns out "we'll fix it when we have more time" is not a platform strategy. It's just what the platform assembly tax sounds like from the inside.
We'll be there! ◡̈
Gang gang!
Marshmallow built great pipelines. Got promoted to "platform team for everyone." Now her Jira is on fire. 🐕🔥 The Level 2 → Level 3 gap breaks almost every platform team.
A standard kubelet weighs about a gigabyte. Edge hardware did not get that memo. KubeEdge's EdgeCore: 70 MB, works offline, no drama.
Read the full blog post here. ⬇️
Naval, Warp, and Spotify all discovered the same thing from different angles: the constraint moved from writing code to defining what code to write. Same pattern, three very different contexts. Thoughts from @puja.dev.
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Most platform teams don't fail because they lack talent. They fail because they're running a service team. Giant Swarm's recipe for closing that gap.
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The hidden cost of platform engineering isn't building your stack — it's keeping it alive. Giant Swarm surveyed 143 platform teams to find out.
Explore the detailed agenda for CNS Munich in Munich on June 29th and 30th, 2026. Listen to expert talks, and connect with Kubernetes and Cloud Native professionals. Plan your day now!
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Still renewing a six-figure VMware license? If your workloads run on Kubernetes, you may be paying for a layer you no longer need. Giant Swarm can help.
What happens to open source when agents do the coding? Giant Swarm thinks the maintainer's job just got harder — and more important.
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🚀 Excited to share that #CNSMunich schedule is now LIVE!
We're looking forward to connecting with fellow cloud-native enthusiasts, sharing insights, and learning from an incredible lineup of speakers and sessions.
If you’ll be attending, let’s definitely meet up!
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We’re excited to welcome Xavier & Antonia to the stage at #CNSMunich!
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