Category Professional Cloud Architect

When you deploy applications to the public internet, you are painting a target on your back. Automated bots, script kiddies, nation-state actors — the threats are constant. Your first line of defense is not the firewall on your VM. It…

DNS does not get the spotlight. Kubernetes gets the spotlight. GPUs get the spotlight. But DNS is the silent navigator that makes sure your traffic actually finds its way home. Without it, nothing works. Every single service call, every API…

So your application is getting serious traffic. You started with a single VM, and it worked fine for a while. But now it is struggling under the load. Worse, if that one VM goes down, your entire application is offline.…

Alright, let us talk about networking in Google Cloud. This is where everything connects. You can have the best VMs, the best databases, the most optimized containers — but if your network is not set up right, none of it…

Alright, let us talk about something that trips up a lot of people when they encounter it for the first time — Deterministic Encryption. If you have worked with databases and security, you know that encryption is supposed to make…

Let me paint you a picture. You have built this fantastic internal web application. It is hosted on Compute Engine or GKE, and your employees use it every day. Now, the traditional way to keep this thing secure is to…

Alright, so you have built your infrastructure. You have your VPCs, your VMs, your databases — everything is running. Now comes the part that most people get wrong. Who gets access to what? Give everyone admin access and you are…