Archive - Cloud Engineering

Cloud Tasks vs Cloud PubSub

What's the difference and when to choose which?

Sep 23 •

August 2024

Cloud Functions is now Cloud Run Functions

Run, Functions, Run!

Aug 21 •

July 2024

The Cloud Run Security Gap You Didn't Know You Had (and How to Fix It)

Learn how to use IAM's allow policies and role bindings to give specific service accounts access to individual Cloud Run services, enhancing your GCP…

Published on JK’s Blog • Jul 18

Serverless Reverse Proxies for Service to Service calls with Cloud Run

Because sometimes, you need a bit more control with your load balancing than what you get from the managed service.

Jul 16 •

May 2024

The Principle of Least Privilege - Serverless Expeditions

A video demo of how to assign manage permissions and security-best practices for service accounts on Cloud Run

Published on JK’s Blog • May 28

Behind The Curtain: How Amazon Bedrock Transforms User Queries Into Results

Travel and Tourist Assistant using Amazon Bedrock

May 25 •

April 2024

The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital Transformation & Cloud

During my first rewatch of my favourite show for a few years, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, I started thinking about how the seven deadly sins…

Apr 19 •

Unusual Use Cases for Serverless Part 2: Serverless to the Rescue: Revitalise Your Outdated Software (Without a Rewrite)

If you've ever wanted to scream when someone tells you, “oh, we can't change that because it's always been done this way,” then perhaps thinking about…

Published on JK’s Blog • Apr 11

The Three Stages of Cloud Maturity

What your value stream says about you

Apr 10 •

February 2024

Unusual Usecases for Serverless Part 1: Donor Engagement at Scale: How Serverless Makes It Affordable for Not-for-profits

Supercharge Donor Experiences, Not Costs: The Serverless Advantage for Not-for-profits

Published on JK’s Blog • Feb 29

January 2024

What is the Secure Web Proxy on Google Cloud?

Secure, control and monitor your egress traffic in your Google Cloud environment.

Jan 19 •

What is Google Cloud External Key Manager (EKM)?

And why should I care? Everything in Google Cloud is encrypted in transit and at rest anyway...

Jan 12 •

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