Giant Conversations

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Giant Conversations

Big Ideas. Authentic Perspectives.Join the Giant Swarm squad each week as we discuss it all — from leading-edge cloud technologies to people-first philosophies — in our new podcast, Giant Conversations.

  1. 36

    GC - #36 Kubernetes at the Edge

    Fresh off a speaking tour through Hamburg, Atlanta, Aarhus, Warsaw, London, and Edinburgh, Antonia and Xavier break down what KubeEdge does, why manufacturers and other distributed operations are turning to it, and how it keeps factory floors, IoT devices, and even satellites running through unreliable connectivity and full outages.

  2. 35

    GC - #35 Manufacturing IIoT

    Join Tommy Hobin alongside his colleague Manuel Gawert to delve deep into IIoT as we discuss challenges, adoption, scaling, and cost benefits of IIoT

  3. 34

    GC - #34 AI for Infrastructure

    Walk alongside Timo Derstappen on his journey to build infrastructure using AI. Covering the spectrum of learning from functionality to the human aspect of working with agents and LLMs

  4. 33

    GC - #33 Cloud Native Monitoring and Observability

    If you know you know. Join us as we talk to Dominik Schmidle about the Giant Swarm Observability Platform.

  5. 32

    GC - #32 Onsite with AI

    In this episode, Oliver and Tommy discuss the Giant Swarm onsites, AI in the news and plug our NEXT event AI for Infrastructure.

  6. 31

    GC - #31 KubeCon Unedited

    We bring back Heather and Joe to talk (almost) all things London and KubeCon. Just as chaotic, fun, and educational as KubeCon itself. See you there!

  7. 30

    GC - #30 One Year of Giant Conversations

    It's not a cut together sho of memories. Tech news keeps coming in and we're here to decipher it for you... still.

  8. 29

    GC - #29 It's Puja Two Y'all

    Confidential computing, Flux 2.5 GA, agent mode for GitHub Copilot, and much more.

  9. 28

    GC - #28 Besties

    Our colleague Puja Abbassi joins us and we discuss some of our BFFs content. We're talking about you Frederic, Viktor, Tim, and Millennium BCP.

  10. 27

    GC - #27 Our 2025 Cloud Native Predictions

    Oliver and Tommy delve into his Cloud Native predictions from 2024 - did they come true? And looking into the future from the Team at Giant Swarm

  11. 26
  12. 25

    GC - #25 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again*

    *From an article shared within Giant Swarm. Not (necessarily) our POV.

  13. 24

    GC - #24 The AI Millionaire

    Find out about the AI "who" became a millionaire. We talk Flux, Bluesky, KCDs, and image_0001.

  14. 23

    GC - #23 A day in the life of a maintainer

    James Strong and Marco Ebert, both NGINX maintainers open up about becoming maintainers and describe the good bad and ugly of their passion behind the project.

  15. 22

    GC - #22 I wish Zach was Here

    Oliver and Tommy muse over the absolute most impressive and good tech news. Zach wasn't invited but would have been nice to have him there.

  16. 21

    GC - #21 Platform-as-a-Product

    Dominik Kress joins Tommy Hobin to discuss his speaker circuit and introduce Platform-as-a-Product

  17. 20

    GC - #20 Is this thing on?

    They cover Elastic Search, Humble Bundles, AI calendar assistance, and how to successfully draw an iceberg.

  18. 19

    GC - #19 We're Baaack!

    From CNCF accepting Flatcar for incubation to the differences between Million, Billion Trillion, and Milliarden. And of course invisible laser beams.

  19. 18

    GC - #18 1:1 with Alexis Richardson - Listen Up

    Oliver Thylmann talks shop with Alexis Richardson. And you don't want to miss this one.

  20. 17

    GC - #17 Happy 10th Birthday Giant Swarm

    It's Giant Swarm's 10th (and Oli had a birthday recently too). Tune in to the musings of your hosts who discuss Microsoft's Project Natick, the trick to a cleaner Google search, Rakuten Viber, and AI in all directions.

  21. 16

    GC - #16 Giant Swarm Trainings

    We are joined by Account Engineer Lorenzo Soligo to explore Giant Swarm's comprehensive approach to training clients on cloud native technologies and our infrastructure.

  22. 15

    GC - #15 Giant Swarm On-sites & Mansions

    Tommy jumps on with Joshua Olson-Kerrigan (otherwise known as Dr. OK) to talk On-sites and mansions, with a cameo from Oliver from his On-site.

  23. 14

    GC - #14 Total Recall

    Enjoy the musings of Oliver Thylmann and Tommy Hobin as they discuss Kubernetes Ecosystem news, AI and our Slack channel #YELLING

  24. 13

    GC - #13 Podcast Sausage

    Tommy is joined by esteemed Podcast Producer Heather Clancy to reminisce over the last 12 episodes.

  25. 12

    GC - #12 Backstage with Backstage

    In this episode of the Giant Conversations podcast, we dive deep into the world of Backstage, the open source developer portal framework that's revolutionizing the way teams collaborate and build software. Join us as we explore how Backstage streamlines the entire DevOps workflow, allowing you to create and manage environments with unparalleled speed and efficiency. Discover the power of standardization and automation, and learn how Backstage can help your team unlock their full potential. Tune in now and get ready to supercharge your software development process!

  26. 11

    GC - #11 From Flatcar to Emotional Support Gators

    This is our news. Directly from the source of Giant Swarm

  27. 10

    GC - #10 Unpacking Open Source with Cortney Nickerson

    From KubeCon in Paris, we asked our guests this question: Can successful open source projects only originate from organizations that don’t prioritize monetizing the project? Cortney's answer resonated with us in the era of new Open Source Licensing, and we just had to have her on.

  28. 9

    GC - #09 It's Liz Rice!

    Come meet Liz Rice as we talk about how much we all love our Kubernetes community. So actually it's an Episode about you.

  29. 8

    GC - #08 News from the Ecosystem

    We discuss digital nomads, IBM buying Hashicorp, the Puppet State of DevOps report, and scary Boston Dynamics robots

  30. 7

    GC - #07 Giant Swarm Platform 3.0

    We talk to.. well, Oliver mainly talks to Giant Swarm's CTO Timo Derstappen about the Giant Swarm Platform 3.0

  31. 6

    GC #06 - Swarmalicious

    Join Oliver snd Tommy in their discussion about the cloud native ecosystem.

  32. 5

    GC #05 - Hanging with Monzo

    We bring on Miles Bryant from our good friends at Monzo Bank to discuss why they adopted Kubernetes back in version 1.3... and much more.

  33. 4

    GC #04 - Back from KubeCon EU

    From what best talks are, to which booth had the best SWAG and even opened up the Pandora's box of Should Open Source Projects be monetized.

  34. 3

    GC #03 - It's all about security

    After a bit of news we delve down deep into the real of Kubernetes Security.

  35. 2

    GC #02 - The Pre-Kubecon Special

    This one adds a lot of information around Kubecon and Paris for all those going. Have fun.

  36. 1

    GC #01 - The Big Introduction

    This time, we're simply introducing you to what this podcast is all about and why we are doing this, and going through some community news and updates. Like and Subscribe :)

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Big Ideas. Authentic Perspectives.Join the Giant Swarm squad each week as we discuss it all — from leading-edge cloud technologies to people-first philosophies — in our new podcast, Giant Conversations.

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