A $16,500 GCP bill nobody could explain. Logging was $3,800
The GCP account I remember most clearly had a billing problem nobody could locate Medium-sized SaaS company. Four GCP projects. Total monthly spend:…
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Deploy a Production-Ready App on GCP in Minutes with RAD
Introduction Terraform is powerful, but writing and maintaining it for every deployment takes time. If you're a developer who wants to ship apps on…
Tagging 8,700 exam questions with an LLM, and why the Portuguese and English versions disagreed
I'm building NaHero ( https://nahero.site ) on my own. It's a set of timed practice exams for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud certifications, in Brazili…
Deploying Logto as a GCP Identity Platform Alternative
Google Cloud Identity Platform is Google's managed CIAM service for web and mobile applications, providing user account management, customizable aut…
Gemma 4 on a Tesla T4, Part 2: The Minimum GCE VM and a Script to Drive It
This article provides a step by step deployment guide for **Gemma 4 E2B * to a Tesla T4 hosted GPU enabled system. A suite of Python MCP tools is bu…
GCP's us-west1 Outage Mapped a Failure Domain Your Service List Couldn't See
A cloud failure domain is not the set of services you selected — it's the set of infrastructure those services actually share, and most architecture…
Deploying a containerized app to Google Cloud Run: what I learned
Deploying a containerized app to Google Cloud Run: what I learned Context A few months ago I built a private shared website for someone: a couples a…
Shattering the Hallucination Barrier: Engineering a Self-Correcting Multi-Agent Compliance Pipeline
The Product Failure of Static Code Scanners Traditional web accessibility (WCAG) tools are fundamentally broken for non-technical small business own…
Tollgate v0.2.3: What Long-Context Pricing Does to a Spend Cap
Most teams find out what their long-context requests cost when the invoice arrives, and the gap is usually wider than the extra tokens explain. Some…
Apigee X Eval Org Stuck at 502? Check These 2 Things First
Quick-fix reference. For the full debugging story behind this, see: The 502 That Wouldn't Die Symptom Your Apigee X evaluation org shows fully provi…
Pixel Patrol: a GDPR watchdog whose main job is staying quiet
I built Pixel Patrol for the All Things Agentic hackathon, and this post is part of that submission. Code is at https://github.com/thatmike1/pixel-p…
I got tired of surprise AWS bills, so I open-sourced a Multi-Cloud FinOps Engine.
Let's be honest. Cloud billing is broken. If you're running an engineering team across AWS, GCP, and Azure , trying to figure out exactly what's cos…
Multi-Cloud Mastery: Combining Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Certifications in 2026
Modern enterprise IT strategy rarely relies on a single public cloud provider. Organizations routinely leverage Microsoft Azure for identity, active…
Wiring the Reasoning Loop: Gemini + Neo4j + MCP for Multi-Hop AI Agents
Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solved the initial LLM hallucination problem by grounding outputs in vector embeddings. However, pure…
Cloud Cost API: Pulling Reconciled AWS, Azure and GCP Spend into Your Own Warehouse (CSV, JSON, Parquet)
Sooner or later, cost data has to live where the rest of the company's data lives: in the warehouse, next to revenue and tenants, where analysts can…
Designing High-Availability Architecture for Google Cloud: Real-World GCP Architect Insights
Designing enterprise applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) requires moving beyond theoretical product features and addressing real-world opera…
My Data Pipeline Caught an AI Fabricating a Source. Here's What 19 Years of Safaricom's Financial Data Taught Me About Trust.
Partway through building a data pipeline on Safaricom's public financial disclosures, one of my own extraction passes handed me two numbers for Ethi…
Self-hosting a lite agent backend on one TPU: Gemma 4 E2B + vLLM on a v5e-1
Self-hosting a lite agent backend on one TPU chip A single Google Cloud TPU v5e chip — 16 GB of HBM, about $0.58/hour on spot — will serve google/ge…
Contributing a GCP Cloud Spanner Scaler to KEDA
How we added native Spanner support to Kubernetes autoscaling — and what we learned along the way The problem We run several workloads on Kubernetes…
Zero to Multi-Region: High Availability Serverless with Cloud Run and Cross-Region Failover & Failback
Google just made multi-region Cloud Run significantly easier. Here is the full picture; what changed, what it means in practice, and how to build it…
Treating Firestore as a public cache
Using Firestore as "the app's primary database" is easy at first. Writes and reads complete in one place, and onSnapshot gives you realtime push for…
How to Run a Real-Time API Across 10 Global Regions on GKE — Without Duplicating Your Manifests
When you're building a real-time speech translation product, latency isn't a performance metric — it's the product itself. A 300ms round-trip to pro…
2 TB of Ukrainian Law + DeepSeek V3 860B on GCP: What We'd Get
In production we have ~1.5 TB of full-text court decisions and their vector embeddings, plus another ~550 GB of other legal data: registries, legisl…
I Built an AI Tool That Finds Wasted Cloud Spending — And Its Carbon Footprint. Published: True
The difficulty If you’re using Google Cloud, you’re probably paying for stuff you don’t need anymore—a server someone forgot to turn off, a storage…
Load Balancing on AWS and GCP: A Practical Guide
Choosing and configuring the right managed load balancer for your cloud architecture Introduction Both AWS and GCP offer mature, fully managed load…
🚀 Cloud Run, GKE, or GCE? Choosing Your Compute
So, maybe you're a developer starting out, or maybe you're an engineer trying to figure out where to run your code, and the whole thing feels like a…
I ran 1,852 cloud provisioning tests. GCP takes twice as long as AWS to spin up a Postgres database.
I've been running automated provisioning benchmarks across AWS, Azure, and GCP for over a year. Every few hours, a script provisions a fresh managed…
Democratizing professional cloud infrastructure
Published June 17, 2026 by gyorgy The cloud the serious companies use is closer than you think. You can build almost anything now. You describe what…
Vertex AI Grounding Cost Gap: Diagnosing the Missing $1300 on My Solo VM
Vertex AI Grounding Cost Gap: Diagnosing the Missing $1300 on My Solo VM Running a full AI product solo on a single small VM means every dollar coun…
Deeper into Dataform 3: Auditing Dataform
It's important to monitor Dataform - jobs executed by Dataform can be the primary source of BigQuery costs in a modern data platform. Forgetting to…