Buying this domain was kind of an impulse decision.. It happened in the middle of the night, and I didn't have a clear vision for what I wanted to do with it. I had a vague idea that I wanted a place to keep some stuff, but I wasn't sure what.

Preparing for the GCP Professional Cloud Architect exam can feel a bit overwhelming given how vast the platform is. I wrote these comprehensive study notes to organize everything I learned while preparing for the exam. Here is the complete breakdown of every post in the series, how I wrote them, and my personal study tips.

Study notes on Migration Center, the 6 Rs, GCVE, Backup and DR Service, RTO/RPO DR patterns, Cost Estimation, CUDs, and Cost Optimization.

Study notes on Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Infra Manager, GitOps, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Testing, Canary/Blue-Green Deployments, Rollbacks, and Observability.

I love digital messaging boards. There's just something endlessly fascinating about giving visitors a blank canvas and letting them leave quick notes or small drawings. As someone who admittedly spent way too many hours watching Reddit's r/place unfold years ago, I really wanted to capture a bit of that magic for my own site.

Study notes on Model Armor, Agent Identity, Enterprise Architectural Patterns, Well-Architected Framework for AI, and End-to-End MLOps.

Study notes on Vertex AI Studio, Model Garden, Agent Builder, RAG Architecture, GPUs, TPUs, and AI Hypercomputer.

Tabs for playing Canon on Kalimba.

Study notes on Firestore, Cloud Bigtable, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Composer, and Data Storage Decision Tree.

Study notes on Cloud Storage, Storage Classes, Object Lifecycle, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Cloud Spanner.

I love to bake and I love eating baked goods. But my problem is most recipes just make way too much. A standard cupcake recipe yields a full dozen, most cookie recipes make 24, and given my complete lack of portion control, I really only need to be making two (maaayybe four) at a time. So back during COVID, I built a simple recipe calculator. It did basic math to scale ingredient amounts up or down for smaller batch sizes. It was written in plain JavaScript and pretty reliable for the task.

Study notes on Cloud Run, Knative, Cloud Run Functions, Compute Engine MIGs, OS Login, Shielded VMs, and Compute Options Comparison.

Study notes on Kubernetes Core Objects, GKE VPC-Native Clusters, Autopilot vs Standard, Workload Identity, and Fleets.

Study notes on Cloud NAT, Network Firewall Policies, Cloud NGFW, and Network Security key terms.

Study notes on VPC Peering, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN, and GCP Load Balancing architectures (L4 and L7).

Study notes on Google Cloud VPCs, Subnets, Shared VPC, MIGs, Cloud Router, and Private Google Access.

Study notes on Advanced Network Security, Cloud KMS, Sensitive Data Protection, Compliance Frameworks, and Cloud Audit Logging.

Study notes on Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy, Organization Policies, Identity Management, and IAM Roles.