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GCP
6 May 2026 8 min

Cloud Run vs Cloud Functions vs App Engine

Google Cloud has three ways to run code without managing servers, and they have converged: functions are now deployed on Cloud Run, and Google recommends Cloud Run over App Engine for new work. This guide explains what each is today, where Cloud Run jobs fit for data work, what scaling to zero saves and how to choose.

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GCP
6 May 2026 10 min

Disaster Recovery and Backups on GCP

Most data loss is not a disaster. It is a person running the wrong statement. This guide separates mistakes from outages, explains RPO and RTO, covers what BigQuery, Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL keep and for how long, and rehearses a backup and restore on a real database to show what a restore loses.

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GCP
6 May 2026 8 min

BigLake and External Tables in BigQuery

BigQuery can query files where they lie, through an external table or a BigLake table. Both point at the same files; what differs is who needs access to the bucket and how finely access can be controlled. This guide explains the difference with a worked access model, the DDL, metadata caching, limits and when to load.

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GCP
6 May 2026 11 min

Cost Controls and Budgets on Google Cloud

A budget on Google Cloud sends alerts; it does not stop spending. This guide sorts the cost tools into three jobs, seeing where money goes, being told when it changes and being stopped at a limit, and models a runaway query to show what each layer does to the month's bill.

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GCP
6 May 2026 8 min

GCP Data Engineering Projects for Your Portfolio

A portfolio project is evidence, and evidence means numbers, failure handling and a README someone can follow. This guide sets out six Google Cloud data engineering projects in rising difficulty, says what each proves and costs, and profiles a real public dataset to show what the write-up should contain.

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GCP
6 May 2026 12 min

Service Accounts and Workload Identity on GCP

A pipeline cannot sign in with a password, so on Google Cloud it runs as a service account. This guide explains the kinds of service account, the five ways a workload proves it is one, why key files are the last resort, and how Workload Identity Federation lets GitHub Actions and GKE pods authenticate with no key.

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