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Google Cloud Platform
I used to be a server person. I liked having my little VPS, SSH-ing into it, installing packages manually. It felt like being a real sysadmin. But then cam…
Google Cloud Platform
It was 3 AM on a Tuesday. I was tired, running a script I thought was pointed at my test environment. One wrong click. One mistyped command. And just like…
Google Cloud Platform
Three years on GCP. I've made mistakes. I've learned lessons. Here's what I wish someone told me on day one. First: set up billing alerts immediately. That…
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My family wanted a website for our reunion. Photos, RSVP, schedule, updates. I built it in a weekend. Frontend on Firebase Hosting. A Cloud Function to han…
Google Cloud Platform
My app crashed. I had logs. Thousands of them. I needed to find the error that happened at 3:14 AM. I used to SSH into servers and grep through log files…
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I used Docker Hub for a while. It was fine until I had a private image that I didn't want public. Then I discovered Artifact Registry on GCP. It's a privat…
Google Cloud Platform
I wanted to break into data science, but I didn't have any projects to show. Then I discovered that Google Cloud gives $300 in free credits to new users. I…
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I tried Jenkins. I tried GitLab CI. I tried GitHub Actions. They all worked, but they all felt like they required configuration YAML that was more complex…
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I had 10,000 files on an old FTP server. They were disorganized, poorly named, and scattered across folders. Moving them to Google Cloud Storage seemed dau…