Time for another blog post! Last week I gave my first in-person talk at a conference since 2017 and I've written a little about the experience dickingwithdocker.com/posts/giving...

Dominik’s talk at @containerdays.bsky.social = platform thinking, good energy, and solid insights his write-up still hits — www.giantswarm.io/blog/how-pla...

Swarmies X @containerdays.bsky.social 👌 Antonia, @salisburyheavyindustries.com @glitchcrab.bsky.social repping hard.

Cloud native satellites!!! 😮 @glitchcrab.bsky.social @giantswarm.io #CDS25

Let’s gooooo @salisburyheavyindustries.com !!! /cc @giantswarm.io #CDS25

The man. The myth. The legend. Dominik is taking over @containerdays.bsky.social!

🎤 “The next market leaders won’t just write code fast — they’ll act on intent faster.” Our CTO @t33m0w.bsky.social is keynoting Beyond IoT on building intent-driven enterprises in the age of AI.

I've spent today wrapping up my final day at @giantswarm.io. The past 4 years have been increadible and I've learnt so much and managed to achieve way more than I ever expected. I'm so thankful to all the wonderful colleagues I've had over my time there and wish them all the best without me! 💙

ICYMI: Catch the replay, overachieving included. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDel...

Shiny platform demos are fun. Golden paths, self-service, smooth pipelines. But Day 2? That’s where things get real. At KubeCon Japan, @puja.dev breaks down the tough stuff.

We spent 5 days on our first hAIve Sprint: 2 days sharing what we know about AI 🤠 3 days improving our platform tooling 🤠 Useful > shiny

And that’s a wrap!!! Thank you so much for an incredible @cnsmunich.bsky.social. Fantastic work from all the organisers, volunteers, speakers and sponsors. And such a wonderful group of attendees! 💙

Our friend @lianmakesthings.bsky.social is now up talking about some of the work they did with the Dutch government.

Giant Swarm sticker spotted on a speaker laptop! 😍

Day two of @cnsmunich.bsky.social is a go! 🎉 Looking forward to more amazing talk!

Thank you so much to everyone that came to my @cnsmunich.bsky.social talk yesterday! 💙 Was not expecting the room to be that busy! If you have feedback: yay-or-nay.cluster.fun/feedback/20U... If you want the slides or links to resources: speaking.marcusnoble.co.uk/HqYcp2/pod-d...

Because he’s an overachiever we have Dominik Schmidle giving his second talk of the day! 🤯 “Think Big: Monitoring Stack was yesterday - Observability Platform at scale!” Observability is so hot right now and it’s so much more than just monitoring. cloudnativesummit.de/schedule?eve... #CNSMunich

Let’s gooooooo @cnsmunich.bsky.social 🎉

Next up we have meeeeee! (@averagemarcus.bsky.social) I’ll be speaking about all the weird, wonderful and WTF things I learnt about Kubernetes Pods after doing a deep-dive to learn all I could about these seemingly simple little things. cloudnativesummit.de/schedule?eve... #CNSMunich

Let's go @vxav.bsky.social ! #CNSMunich

Before lunch with have the amazing @vxav.bsky.social talking about some experimentation he and his team did at Giant Swarm to bolster our on-prem Kubernetes offering. ✨ Bringing Cloud-Native Agility to Bare-Metal Kubernetes with Cluster API and Metal³ ✨ cloudnativesummit.de/schedule?eve...

Looking forward to learning how I can profit from my main skill. #CNSMunich

Lets go Dominik 🎉 cloudnativesummit.de/schedule?eve... #CNSMunich

Let’s goooooo! @cnsmunich.bsky.social

I hope y’all are ready for @cnsmunich.bsky.social! Lots of great talks today including FOUR from Giant Swarm! 😮 Kicking off the morning with our wonderful Dominik Schmidle teaming up with Stéphane Di Cesare to teach all about product thinking for cloud native engineers! 💙 cnsmunich.de/schedule/

The Swarm is heading to Munich! 🇩🇪 We’ve got not one, not two but THREE speakers at @cnsmunich.bsky.social tomorrow! ✨ I (@averagemarcus.bsky.social) will be taking over the Giant Swarm account the next couple days to bring you all the highlights! Lets goooo! 🎉

Oh look it's me! 😁

Our own @puja.dev took the stage at #KubeCon Japan — and now you can hit rewind.

👉 Das ganze Interview gibt's bei Heise: www.heise.de/hintergrund/... #PlatformEngineering #DeveloperProductivity #CloudNative @giantswarm.io

This reply is a great birthday gift. 😄

11 years of Giant Swarm! Still building, still learning, still loving it. Grateful to our team, our customers, and the open source community who’ve grown with us. 💙

“You can produce a lot of 💩 very fast.” Code firehoses, dopamine loops, and the fine art of not burning out in the LLM era.

Dominik: “AI is hype. But also… it’s amazing — if you do it right.” Right = focusing on value delivered, not model performance. This mindset shift transformed how we approach our Observability Platform @ Giant Swarm. Full convo in Ep. 33.

Oh nice! The recording of my talk at @kcdbudapest.hu is available on YouTube! 😁 youtu.be/zDBt4g1ETDg...

Not satisfied with ONE talk, our own @puja.dev is teaming up with the fantastic @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social for another talk this time at OpenSSF Community Day. Ozzie & Nova - Supply Chain Shenanigans: A Kubernetes Security Play About OpenSSF Standards openssfcdjapan2025.sched.com/event/23VH0/

Slides now available in sched kccncjpn2025.sched.com/event/cbd7d3...

Hope to meet some of you there and if you're not coming to Tokyo keep your eyes out for the recording on YouTube very soon!

Attending #KubeConCloudNativeCon in Japan? 🇯🇵 Well, our very own @puja.dev is! On Monday June 16th, he’ll be talking about: “Platform Engineering Day 2: Why Service Iterations are the Crux of Developer Platforms” Stop by and say hey 👋 kccncjpn2025.sched.com/event/1x70r/...

Oh hey look! Want to come take over my job? Want to work with some increadible people? This job is 🔥hot🔥 Happy to chat about it if anyone wants.

🔧 We're looking for a Platform Engineer to join our remote team! Building cloud native platforms with Kubernetes and GitOps is challenging work, but someone's got to keep the clusters happy 😅 giant-swarm.jobs.personio.de/job/166734?d...

CAPI all the things. ✅ We just shut down our last legacy operator in prod. It’s all #ClusterAPI now — declarative, portable, maintainable. Props to our team. Platform 3.0 starts now. 🤠

Cloud native, but make it bare metal. 🤘 @giantswarm.io's @vxav.bsky.social is showing how to automate on-prem K8s with Cluster API + Metal³ at #CloudNativeDaysItaly.

“Platform engineering is like a gym membership. Anyone can buy one, but results require work.” — Giant Swarm PO Dominik CNCF's Maturity Model might be your path to fitness. Read more with @heise.de.

Some call it hybrid work. We call it a floaty in the pool. 🏖💻

I’m going to be speaking at @containerdays.bsky.social in September (along with four of my @giantswarm.io colleagues!) and I was just looking at the full speaker line up and WOW! It’s going to be a great few days! Very excited! www.containerdays.io/containerday...

“Getting more non-techie people to see contribution opportunities in open source is really needed :)” Dominik’s taking that idea to the Siemens @ Open Source crowd with a talk titled: You don’t need to be Linus Torvalds

“It’s not a drop-in replacement.” 140 days of moving from Ingress to Gateway API — what broke, what worked, what shifted.

How many clusters can you migrate before things get weird? @salisburyheavyindustries.com found out. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0W6...

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