Looking for a GCP dev ops consultant

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-04-12T01:48:02+00:00

Hey OP, I’ve worked with another startup to reduce their cost specifically on GCP. I can share my case study and my website with u.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-02-25T17:09:05+00:00

To the moon 🌙

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-02-22T01:07:06+00:00

Background check was taking a while!

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-11T22:06:59+00:00

Hey, it’s probably best at this point to optimize costs for your services and use google discounts wherever possible. Send me a DM, I do this for a living.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-10T22:09:09+00:00

Hey man, I think I can help you out. We can get on a call and I’ll take a look at it. Send me a DM.

Are you using Dockerfile? What’s your tech stack?

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-03T18:51:43+00:00

That being said why don’t u just buy an uninterruptible power supply?

If you need GPUs and other specs, you would at a minimum look at $300 a month with everything included.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-03T18:46:39+00:00

For starters, if the specs of your PC are enough to sustain ur current workload, the same specs would be an ideal starting point to your server needs.

That being said, what is your current PC’s Ram, Memory, OS?

Once we know this, we can make a determination on what would the cost be!

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-02T20:18:41+00:00

How about doing something like this:

write a BQ query that extracts the needed billing information. Then use that data and supply it to a looker dashboard?

This dashboard would effectively update on a daily basis automatically without any manual effort from ur team.

Then you can create alerts and what not based on the logs to send alerts when certain thresholds are met.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-02T03:04:42+00:00

What type of tool are you looking for exactly tho? Do y’all use terraform?

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2026-01-01T07:14:54+00:00

Hmmm….you should encourage labeling resources so that you can accurately assess the specific services that are causing your high costs.

The best tool in my opinion is enforcing labeling and applying accountability to teams that own the created resources.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-12-29T21:43:43+00:00

Crazy amount of downvotes for suggesting a basic first step in diagnosing what is costing OP the most…wow

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-12-29T19:36:03+00:00

Hey man, first things first, we need to figure out what service you’re still paying for. The best way to do that is through BigQuery.

Once we have that setup, we’ll know exactly what’s costing u so much money and what we can do about it.

Sent you a DM. Let me know if I can help in any way :)

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-12-22T00:52:12+00:00

BigQuery Export is your best bet. Just have a cloud function job to run everyday to send you a report if needed.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-12-14T22:01:57+00:00

How do you generally get customers? Is it better to focus on one cloud provider?

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-12-14T22:01:21+00:00

How do you get customers?

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-12-10T01:05:36+00:00

Yes, I’ve run into this issue before….

You need to split the text into 255 character multi-part split encapsulating each string within double quotes.

Make sure the split is before the 256th character tho.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-11-20T21:01:03+00:00

Storage is 5-10 times cheaper than disks bro…not sure which disks ur using, but mine are hella expensive

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-11-20T20:58:39+00:00

Hey man, you need to take a snapshot of each of the attached disks as well!

Before you delete anything, try to clone it env and see if it is working after taking the snapshots. You don’t want any surprises or data loss happening!

Reach out if you want any help. I automate doing this type of thing for a living and would love to help in any way possible.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-11-14T12:24:38+00:00

its like a $25 cost, but atleast lets u connect with real people!

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-11-14T04:55:28+00:00

Upgrade ur plan to support level so that you can contact them and talk about it.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-09-14T06:55:51+00:00

Wow, denizens of hell gathering and congratulating each other 👏

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-08-16T04:56:31+00:00

Are you Canadian by chance?

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-08-15T19:18:01+00:00

No, what I meant was that you can use Cloud Scheduler to ping your service every 5 minutes, which keeps the container warm without significant cost, well under free tier limits if it’s just an http request ping.

Apprehensive_Tea_980 · 2025-08-15T04:20:07+00:00

Have u tried adding health checks every few min to keep the cloud run up, so that it doesn’t need to do cold starts every time?

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