All 36 articles, sorted alphabetically
Cloud Vision API
Image + PDF analysis. Managed vision AI.
Read article →AlloyDB architecture
Deep-dive on AlloyDB: Postgres compatible, compute + log-based storage, columnar engine, read replicas, AI extensions, PITR.
Read article →GCP BigQuery
How BigQuery provides serverless SQL data warehouse at massive scale.
Read article →BigQuery BI Engine
Deep-dive on BigQuery BI Engine: in-memory columnar caching and vectorized execution, automatic query routing and partial acceleration, LRU working-se…
Read article →GCP Bigtable
How Bigtable provides massive-scale wide-column storage, when to use it versus Firestore or Spanner.
Read article →Google Cloud Armor architecture
Deep-dive on Google Cloud Armor: security policies attached to the external HTTP(S) load balancer, ordered rules with allow/deny/redirect/throttle act…
Read article →GCP Cloud Build
How Cloud Build provides managed CI/CD with deep GCP integration.
Read article →Google Cloud CDN architecture
Deep-dive on Google Cloud CDN: edge PoP caching enabled on the global HTTPS load balancer, cache hits served close to users while misses fill from the…
Read article →GCP Cloud Functions
How Cloud Functions run code in response to GCP events, cold starts, and how they compare to AWS Lambda.
Read article →GCP Cloud Run
How Cloud Run provides serverless container execution, scaling to zero.
Read article →Cloud Run Concurrency and Autoscaling: Architecture Deep-Dive
How Cloud Run's per-instance concurrency and autoscaler together set latency, cost, and blast radius — with cold starts, min/…
Read article →GCP Cloud SQL
How Cloud SQL provides managed relational databases, HA configurations, and read replicas.
Read article →GCP Cloud Tasks architecture
Deep-dive on Google Cloud Tasks: the push-queue model, per-task addressability, dispatch rate and concurrency controls, retry policy with backoff, sch…
Read article →Google Colossus architecture
Deep-dive on Colossus, Google's cluster-level distributed file system and the successor to GFS that underpins BigQuery, Spann…
Read article →Cloud Composer architecture
Deep-dive on Cloud Composer: Airflow scheduler + workers + metadata DB, DAG lifecycle, operators, sensors, IAM, observability.
Read article →GCP Dataflow
How Dataflow provides managed Apache Beam for batch + streaming pipelines.
Read article →GCP Dataproc architecture
Deep-dive on Google Cloud Dataproc: the control-plane API, master/primary-worker/secondary-preemptible node layout, YARN and HDFS as cluster-local scr…
Read article →GCP Datastream
Deep-dive on Google Cloud Datastream: serverless log-based change data capture that streams row-level inserts, updates, and deletes from MySQL, Postgr…
Read article →Eventarc architecture
Deep-dive on Google Cloud Eventarc: direct and Cloud Audit Log sources, the Pub/Sub transport backbone, triggers and attribute filtering, CloudEvents …
Read article →GCP Firestore
How Firestore provides serverless document DB with real-time sync.
Read article →Google Cloud Storage
How Cloud Storage compares to S3, storage classes (Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive), and lifecycle policies.
Read article →GCP GKE
How GKE provides managed Kubernetes with autopilot mode option.
Read article →GCP IAM
How GCP IAM works: predefined and custom roles, principals (users, service accounts, groups), and hierarchical policy inheritance.
Read article →GCP Cloud Logging
How Cloud Logging aggregates + queries logs.
Read article →GCP Memorystore
How Memorystore provides managed Redis and Memcached.
Read article →GCP Multi-Region Architecture in Depth
A 2500-word walkthrough of GCP multi-region: Cloud DNS, Global LB anycast, regional stacks, Cloud Spanner multi-region, Firestore/GCS/BigQuery, and ob…
Read article →GCP Overview
What GCP is, how projects and folders organize resources, and where GCP fits versus AWS and Azure.
Read article →GCP Pub/Sub
How GCP Pub/Sub provides globally distributed pub/sub messaging.
Read article →GCP Cloud Spanner
How Spanner provides horizontally-scalable strongly-consistent SQL globally.
Read article →Spanner TrueTime
Deep-dive on Spanner TrueTime: the interval-returning TrueTime API, GPS/atomic-clock-bounded uncertainty, commit wait for external consistency, Paxos …
Read article →Vertex AI architecture
Deep-dive on Vertex AI: Model Garden and custom training, Model Registry lineage, online endpoints with traffic splits, batch prediction, KFP pipeline…
Read article →GCP VPC
How GCP VPCs differ from AWS: global scope, subnets per region, and shared VPC patterns.
Read article →VPC Service Controls architecture
Deep-dive on VPC Service Controls: service perimeters versus IAM, ingress and egress rule pairing, Access Context Manager access levels, the restricte…
Read article →GCP Workflows
How Workflows provides serverless orchestration for GCP + external services.
Read article →Security Command Center
GCP security posture + threat detection.
Read article →Google Text-to-Speech
WaveNet + Neural2 voices. Multilingual.
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