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GCP Architecture Patterns
Production-ready reference architectures for Google Cloud — from serverless microservices to hybrid multi-region deployments.
Cloud Run + Pub/Sub
Event-driven serverless with push subscriptions, dead-letter queues, and per-service IAM.
GKE Autopilot Mesh
Managed Kubernetes with Istio sidecar injection, mTLS, and regional node auto-provisioning.
Hybrid Connectivity
Cloud Interconnect + HA VPN with BGP, on-prem DNS forwarding, and Private Service Connect.
Data Lake on GCS
Parquet-backed BigLake tables, Dataproc Serverless Spark, and partitioned external tables.
Decision Tree
1Stateless HTTP workloads → Cloud Run. Stateful or long-running → GKE or Compute Engine.
2Global low-latency reads → Spanner or Memorystore. Analytics → BigQuery. Blob → Cloud Storage.
3Multi-region active-active → Spanner + Global L7 LB. DR warm standby → cross-region GKE + replicated GCS.
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