gcp
Architecture
Google Cloud Disaster Recovery: RTO, RPO, and Cross-Region Patterns
Plan backup and disaster recovery on Google Cloud around RTO and RPO targets, and choose between backup-restore, cold, warm, and hot standby across regions.
10 min read
Google Cloud reliability guides
The evergreen playbooks behind our outage analyses - how to architect so the next Service Control or GCLB event is a log line, not an incident channel.
Architecture
GCP Load Balancing and Multi-Region Failover
How the global HTTP(S) load balancer routes traffic to the nearest healthy region, how to configure health checks and failover, and its global-dependency risk.
9 min read
Architecture
GCP Observability: Cloud Monitoring, SLOs, and Independent Checks
Instrument Google Cloud with Cloud Monitoring, define SLOs and error budgets, and add independent external checks so a provider outage cannot blind your dashboards.
9 min read
Architecture
Surviving Google Cloud Outages: Regional and Global Failure Design
Architect on Google Cloud for two failure modes: regional events you can fail over from, and global IAM, networking, and control-plane failures you cannot.
10 min read
Architecture
Multi-Region GCP Architecture Patterns
What zones and regions protect you from on Google Cloud, which products are global-by-default (and therefore fail globally), and the concrete multi-region patterns - storage, Spanner, and Cloud Run behind a global load balancer - with a cost breakdown.
10 min read
Kubernetes
GKE High Availability: The Complete Guide
What the GKE SLA actually covers (the control plane, not your workloads), regional vs zonal clusters, node-pool spread and PodDisruptionBudgets, and how to keep pods serving when the API server - or a global Google layer - is down.
13 min read