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Server Monitoring and Email Alerting with Grafana, Prometheus, and Docker
A practical guide to standing up server monitoring and email alerting with Grafana, Prometheus, and Docker, so failures reach your inbox before they reach your users.
Read articleRestricting a Cloud Run Service to Internal Users with Identity-Aware Proxy
Turning a publicly reachable Cloud Run service into a private one that only specific users can reach after signing in with Google. An Infrastructure-as-Code walkthrough tying together IAP, a custom domain, Cloud Identity, DNS, and Terraform.
Read articleHalving Cloud SQL Costs with GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUD)
A practical walkthrough of applying Committed Use Discounts (CUD) to an always-on Cloud SQL instance to cut database costs in half, with the key judgment calls, viewed through a FinOps lens.
Read articleSummarizing Long-Form Audio with Speech-to-Text and Claude: Automating Meeting Reports
A case study combining Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and Claude to automate long meeting audio from transcription through summarization. Covers the pipeline design and the key points for accuracy.
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