Most Cloud Run deployments are running with their default concurrency setting of 80, their billing mode unchanged from the install default, and their VPC connectivity wired through a Serverless VPC Access connector that was provisioned two years ago. Each of…
Most architects evaluating GCP networking start with the wrong question. After years of building on AWS or Azure, the instinct is to ask “how do I connect my VPCs across regions?” and then spend weeks designing transit VPC patterns, cross-region…
Most teams migrating from GKE Standard to Autopilot discover the billing model has fundamentally changed, and then carry on deploying workloads exactly as before. On Standard, over-provisioned requests are absorbed into node-level billing and largely invisible. On Autopilot, every millicore…
Most architects treat UK data residency as a location question. The ICO, the FCA, and the NCSC do not. UK GDPR contains no requirement to store data on British soil. The FCA’s PS21/3 operational resilience regime does not mandate UK-only…
Pub/Sub is a natural fit for event-driven architectures on GCP, but it has a default behaviour that catches enterprise teams off guard. When a subscriber fails to acknowledge a message, Pub/Sub retries delivery indefinitely until the message retention window closes,…
Most GCP Cloud Armor deployments follow the same pattern: enable the service, attach the preconfigured OWASP rulesets, move on. It feels complete. The problem is that preconfigured rulesets and custom CEL expressions operate on fundamentally different parts of the request…
Most GCP teams enable the Container Scanning API, check the Artifact Registry console once, and consider the job done. The scan results sit there, a growing list of CRITICAL and HIGH severity CVEs, while the pipeline keeps pushing images to…
Cloud Spanner is the only commercial database guaranteeing external consistency across every region on the planet, backed by a 99.999% availability SLA. For enterprise architects weighing database decisions worth £50,000-£500,000+ annually, understanding exactly when this matters (and when it doesn’t)…
Build times consuming 15-20 minutes drain developer productivity and inflate GCP bills unnecessarily. Teams running 3,000 builds monthly at £0.006 per minute face £270-£360 in compute costs before any optimisation. Docker layer caching with Artifact Registry reduces these times by…
Cloud Storage buckets silently drain budgets when organisations treat all data equally. A 2024 analysis of enterprise GCP deployments revealed that 63% of object storage costs stem from data sitting in Standard storage class when Nearline or Coldline would suffice.…
