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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cross Cloud A2A Agent Benchmarking
Building a Benchmarking Agent with A2A and MCP This tutorial aims to build and test benchmarking Agents using the A2A protocol across several mainst…
Misadventures in Kubernetes: Autoscaling Workers
So we’ve already done a few things for setting up our own custom cluster. We’ve manually configured a Kubernetes Control Plane and joined worker nod…
Terraform Outputs on GCP: Querying Useful Data from a VPC, Subnet, and VM
Hi, we are back again. Previously, I created a simple Google Cloud VPC and then improved the configuration by introducing variables. This time, I wa…