GCP Stories
GCP looks simple until IAM edges, managed-service defaults, or quota limits bite under load. These stories cover the operational lessons teams learned while running production systems on Google Cloud.
2 stories
🏗️ System Design
A Five-Person Startup Used Kubernetes for the Boring Parts and Built a Separate Control Plane for Everything Humans Waited On
👤 Crimson-Sentry-61a Early-stage startup infrastructure2022
“We were a five-person startup building a platform for browser-based applications that give each user a dedicated backend process. That meant we had two very different kinds of oper...”
KubernetesGCPPostgreSQLScaling+1
😰 Near-MissThe CronJob That Quietly Saturated Our Kubernetes Cluster
👤 @kim-on-platformfintech2024
“This one started as a harmless cleanup task. We had moved our payments platform from Heroku to GKE about six months earlier and were still learning which safety rails Kubernetes gi...”
KubernetesGCPPrometheusGrafana+2