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Cloud Storage Classes: How I Cut My Storage Bill by 70%
I was storing years of old backups, logs, and user uploads in standard Cloud Storage buckets. My bill was growing every month. Then I discovered storage cl…
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I Used Vertex AI to Build an App That Reads My Handwriting (And It's Terrible But I Love It)
My handwriting is illegible. Even I can't read it sometimes. So I built an app using Google Cloud's Vertex AI and the Vision API. I take a photo of my note…
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BigQuery Saved Me From Excel Hell
My previous job involved analyzing CSV files. Gigabytes of them. Excel would crash. My laptop would overheat. I spent hours writing VLOOKUPs that took minu…
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Why I Moved From AWS to GCP (And Never Looked Back)
This might be controversial. I started on AWS. EC2, RDS, S3. It worked. But something always felt off. The console was a maze. The documentation felt like…
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Cloud Functions: The Duct Tape That Holds My Side Projects Together
I have a problem: I start too many side projects. But I also have a solution: Google Cloud Functions. Need a webhook? Cloud Function. Need to process an im…
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The Day My Site Got Hacker News Front Page (And GCP Didn't Flinch)
I published a blog post about a niche programming topic. It was just a little static site hosted on Firebase Hosting. Then I went to bed. I woke up to 47 n…
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I Built a $10 Million App Idea on GCP for $3.42
I had this app idea. A travel planner that uses AI to generate itineraries. Big dreams, no money. I decided to build it on Google Cloud. I used Cloud Run f…
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Running a Discord Bot for 10,000 Users on Google Cloud's Free Tier
I run a Discord bot for a gaming community. Ten thousand users. Hundreds of requests per minute. And I pay exactly $0 to host it. The secret? Google Cloud…
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The $10 Mistake That Taught Me Everything About GCP Billing
I woke up to an email from Google Cloud: "Your bill for this month is $10.52." I panicked. My little side project was supposed to be on the free tier. How…