The archive
Writing
Field notes on ISV integrations, agent engineering and Marketplace onboarding. One post a day. 7 total
August 2026
- № 007
One Calculator, Four Front Doors: Building an AI‑Native TCO Tool for Databricks on Google Cloud
How I turned a spreadsheet into a chat agent, an interactive form, and a live dashboard — using open agent standards on Google Cloud.
- № 006
Starting a writing habit, in public
Eight years of migration notes have gone into documents about four people read. Here's the plan to fix that.
December 2021
- № 005
Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 1: What is Cloud ?
Cloud is an outsourcing model, not a buzzword — explained through a utility connection and a vending machine.
- № 004
Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 2: How can I consume Cloud ?
The nine layers of a software application, and how shared responsibility slices them into IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS and the rest.
- № 003
Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 3: Where do I compute on cloud ?
VMs, Kubernetes, serverless and event-driven functions — choosing where your code actually runs, and what each choice costs you.
- № 002
Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 4: Where do I store my data on Cloud ?
OLTP vs OLAP, SQL vs NoSQL, file vs block vs object — how to pick the right place to put your data.
- № 001
Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 5: How do I connect to my cloud ?
Load balancers, DNS, CDN, WAF and VPC — the networking and security constructs that tie everything together.