A fintech startup must securely SSH into private Compute Engine instances without public IPs or VPN. The decision matrix explores managed tunnels versus bastion hosts.
Explore multiple architecture options to design a resilient, cost-efficient web application backend with occasional traffic spikes, analyzing service choices with SRE and FinOps lenses.
Exploring how to separate network and compute administration to protect sensitive data in a multi-team environment while applying best practices in Shared VPC and IAM role assignment.
Explore how to expose internal microservices on GKE with scalable replicas while maintaining uniform service addressing in a complex Kubernetes architecture.
A fintech startup must handle 500K requests per second with cost constraints. This drill explores managed compute vs. VM autoscaling and BigQuery vs. Bigtable for real-time exact-match storage.
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.
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.
A global fintech startup experiences latency in its Anthos microservices platform and must decide how to best identify the culprit using Anthos observability tools.