When you hear “Firebase,” you might think of hackathons, mobile app backends, or startup MVPs. It’s often typecast as a tool for rapid prototyping, a “lite” backend for developers who don’t want to manage servers. From a professional cloud architect’s…

You’ve mastered the art of cloud infrastructure. You can provision resources, deploy applications, manage networks, and troubleshoot complex systems. But as you climb the ranks of cloud expertise, you encounter new challenges: How do you keep the most sensitive data—passwords…

You’ve built a fantastic internal web application that your employees use for critical operational tasks. It’s hosted on a Compute Engine VM or a GKE cluster. Traditionally, to keep this application secure and only accessible to your internal staff, you…

Imagine it’s your first week on the job as a cloud engineer. Your manager gives you a task: “We need a new staging environment for our main application. Please create an exact replica of our production environment—the VPC, the subnets,…

You’ve done it. You are the master of your cloud domain. You’ve architected global networks, deployed fleets of containers on GKE, and built event-driven systems with Cloud Functions. Your infrastructure is a marvel of modern engineering. But as the month…

We’ve journeyed across the entire landscape of Google Cloud compute. We’ve laid our own foundation with Compute Engine (IaaS). We’ve mastered the complex but powerful city-planning of GKE (CaaS). And we’ve moved into the effortless luxury apartment of App Engine (PaaS). But a new desire has…

Your application is deployed. Your GKE cluster is humming, your databases are ready, and your functions are awaiting triggers. You’ve built the ship. But now you have to sail it, and sailing in the cloud can feel like navigating through…

Alright, you’ve mastered the art of storing data in Google Cloud. Your databases are humming along, ready to serve and save information. But how do your applications, your users, and your other services talk to these databases? How does anything talk to…

Let’s start with a common scenario. You’re building an e-commerce application. When a user finalizes an order, several things need to happen: the inventory service must be updated, a shipping label needs to be created, and a confirmation email must…