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Shared VPC vs Peering for Projects | GCP ACE

7 January 2026·657 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE VPC Networking

This drill explores connecting Compute Engine instances running in separate VPCs and projects, focusing on the best practices for network sharing and access control.

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.

Data Ingestion Pipeline Service Trade-offs | GCP ACE

6 January 2026·545 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Pub/Sub Dataflow Bigtable BigQuery

A global IoT gaming company must process large-scale time-series data from devices efficiently, balancing simplicity, scalability, and analytics speed.

CI/CD Deployment Controls—SRE vs Security | GCP PCA

5 January 2026·1005 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Build GKE

A microservices-driven fintech startup needs a fully automated CI/CD pipeline with strict deployment controls to their Kubernetes Engine development environment. We analyze the best solution balancing automation, security, and reliability.

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.

Data Governance Retention Lock Trade-offs | GCP PCA

4 January 2026·639 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Storage

A financial services firm needs to prevent deletion or overwriting of mortgage approval documents for 5 years. This drill explores retention policies, access controls, and encryption strategies to enforce immutable storage.

Batch Migration Decision—Managed vs Lift-and-Shift | GCP ACE

4 January 2026·613 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Run

A growing fintech startup needs to migrate an on-premises batch analytics job running nightly to GCP with minimal cost and operational effort. Which approach best balances operational simplicity and cost efficiency?

Anthos Observability Telemetry Trade-offs | GCP PCA

3 January 2026·714 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Anthos Service Mesh

A global fintech startup experiences latency in its Anthos microservices platform and must decide how to best identify the culprit using Anthos observability tools.

Stateful Compute vs Filestore Trade-off | GCP PCA

3 January 2026·700 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP PCA GCP FinOps SRE Cloud Filestore

Explore how to architect a horizontally scalable stateful workload requiring shared POSIX-compliant storage with high write throughput while balancing cost, performance, and operations.

IAM Access Boundaries vs Ops Overhead | GCP ACE

3 January 2026·654 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Google Cloud Platform GCP ACE GCP FinOps SRE IAM

A global online media company must control departmental resource access while minimizing operational overhead and following Google best practices.