Compute Engine

Compute Autoscaling vs High Availability Trade-off | GCP ACE

17 January 2026·819 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

Rapidly scaling a video encoding platform on Compute Engine requires balancing high availability, automation, and cost-efficiency through autoscaling instance groups.

Autoscaling Performance Troubleshooting | GCP PCA

6 January 2026·644 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

Diagnosing autoscaling and CPU saturation issues on Compute Engine with effective operational choices.

Prevent Accidental VM Deletes on Shared Projects | GCP ACE

5 January 2026·509 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

A fintech startup needs to host a mission-critical application on a shared Compute Engine project, ensuring isolation from other teams’ activities to avoid accidental downtime.

Automate OS Patching Without Rebuilding Images | GCP PCA

2 January 2026·743 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine GKE

A global fintech firm needs to deploy a Debian-based application with minimal manual OS patching. We explore the best approach aligning with SRE and FinOps principles.

Zonal Outage DR for Compute Engine Disks | GCP PCA

30 December 2025·710 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

Designing a highly available Compute Engine architecture that quickly recovers from zonal outages by balancing data availability, infrastructure complexity, and cost.

Managed Instance Group vs Unmanaged VMs | GCP ACE

23 December 2025·530 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

Exploring the operational and architectural decisions behind dynamically provisioning VM instances in Google Compute Engine using configuration-driven approaches.

Org Policy vs VPC Controls for External IPs | GCP PCA

18 December 2025·1146 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Organization Policy VPC Security Compute Engine

Learn how to enforce external IP restrictions across all VPCs using Organization Policy constraints instead of brittle network configurations, featuring SRE automation principles and FinOps analysis.

Cut Idle VM Cost Without Risky Shutdowns | GCP PCA

14 December 2025·704 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Compute Engine

A global fintech startup needs to reduce costs by managing non-production Compute Engine workloads that have different availability requirements from production.

Pricing Calculator Cost Trade-offs | GCP ACE

14 December 2025·1112 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps Cloud Pricing Calculator Cloud SQL Compute Engine Cost Optimization

Learn why the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator is the foundational tool for accurate cost estimation when migrating three-tier applications to GCP, and how to avoid common pitfalls like manual spreadsheets or premature production testing.