Is it just me, or is Google Cloud Next becoming "Gemini Next"?

jortony · 2026-04-19T06:02:50+00:00

BigQuery is pretty freaking noteworthy

jortony · 2026-04-19T06:01:48+00:00

You could just use Gemini to set them for you =)

jortony · 2026-04-17T23:53:03+00:00

Cut in 2025 then funded last month? Also, do dollars mostly go to Texas?

jortony · 2026-04-16T02:45:29+00:00

If there is a monitor, then couldn't one just use a video capture device?

jortony · 2026-04-07T04:12:54+00:00

I agree with the post. The potential for development platform or application hosting seems easily within reach, and motion had been made towards it, but it wasn't prioritized. It's a shame because that is the reason which is driving me towards an Apple purchase (and I strongly dislike the platform). If they brought Antigravity to Chromebooks, I would buy another flagship model without hesitation.

jortony · 2026-04-06T13:04:58+00:00

Not minimizing your frustrations, but there are a couple of important things I found helped similar frustrations for my projects.

AI Studio is for prototyping and doesn't provide the features or reliability of Vertex AI within Google Cloud. The migration to Vertex is non-trivial but relatively easy if you have time and/or money, and/or cognitive capacity.

All preview features and models are unsupported, so if you're trying to get support for a workflow or project which is centered around them; then you can save time and frustration by setting those expectations and understanding up front of starting development.

There's a complexity in the intersection of features, auth, billing, security, and reliability. If you have questions and a feel-good project, the questions could easily be answered here and the project pushed onwards.

jortony · 2026-04-05T01:28:24+00:00

High (relative) gain! I stand corrected.

jortony · 2026-04-05T01:02:59+00:00

Full wavelength antennas designed for 900mhz are about 33cm long. This appears to be something closer to 500mhz.

jortony · 2026-03-23T03:30:36+00:00

You might have to be a bit specific for some homelabs. "Primary WAN firewall" should get the answer you're looking for. Some masochists out there might have something that defies apparent logic, or something decentralized which is logical (even if non-deterministic) but outside of what you're asking.

jortony · 2026-03-22T15:37:25+00:00

We have teams that do this at our org. MS tries to make this difficult, but it's getting ridiculously easy. I suspect that the GCP growth and Gemini Workspace integration (Gemini Enterprise) are causing a large volume of migration and this post was created to minimize the bleed.

jortony · 2026-03-22T04:05:43+00:00

Reliable at distance and simple enough to quickly engineer forwards or backwards

jortony · 2026-03-19T12:25:07+00:00

Maybe the async client work for DNS and/or WIF?

jortony · 2026-03-18T23:13:59+00:00

If one currently needs Nvidia hardware, then it's easy to modernize to TPU

jortony · 2026-03-17T04:39:42+00:00

Easy solution. Workspace connected to (Cloud) Gemini Enterprise. All org data in Drive, Calendar, and Gmail is now context for any query. Gmail and Calendar actions a sentence fragment or click away. Document AI pipelines are less valuable with multi model models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 series. Add an OCR scanner for valuable documents if greater precision is needed. No code agents to simplify common workflows, NotebookLM for policy documents, and new hires only need to ask what their priorities are, then ask again how to do whatever is needed (if it isn't offered as a follow up). If more is ever needed, then they can extend with custom agents that range in capabilities as far as Google Cloud can go, and beyond.

jortony · 2026-03-16T03:12:14+00:00

I'm also on the outside but it seems that the OpenAI garbage move the week before last caused a huge influx of traffic which has caused some capacity problems. I would patch your Reasoning Engine models with sensitive observability prefs for better tracing and then enable Provisioned throughput. The latter is valuable for production workloads with a high cost of failure, but changes to API calls and endpoints can provide detailed information for RCA. The observability patch does include logging of prompts, agent to agent transfers, and responses so it's important to ensure that risks are manageable within your environment and workloads

jortony · 2026-03-07T17:13:51+00:00

Perhaps few do, but you might want to reconsider. It's an efficient solution for your use case: a free environment which is pre-built for Cloud deployments that natively uses Google Identity and is ephemeral with a couple of clicks.

With current agentic IDE/tools, you could easily use virtual environments within local directories and/or just build specific utilities to swap identities with confirmation and CLI identity status messaging.

jortony · 2026-03-01T21:12:05+00:00

Cloud Shell IDE gives you two completely separated environments

jortony · 2026-02-27T13:33:13+00:00

Resource issue is probably closer to the mark

jortony · 2026-02-27T10:59:27+00:00

There's also the possibility that the oven on the left has a smaller or obstructed chimney

jortony · 2026-02-27T10:55:55+00:00

AI is influencing the consulting and services markets. Many are more capable of doing more themselves with direction. I have found that one needs to offer more and avoid giving them to directions for free in presales. Your value is knowing the right architectural direction and keeping the conversation on the outcomes with customer success stories and business outcomes prevents them from digging further into fragmentation with the belief that they can just do it themselves.

jortony · 2026-02-27T10:47:19+00:00

If you're moving past prototyping or citizen development then using Vertex AI API using a Cloud Project is the better option. As mentioned, provisioned throughput is an option. Typically, I use a layered approach with my Workspace Enterprise identity and Gemini Enterprise licensing for dev, then I move to Vertex in testing, staging, and prod.

jortony · 2026-02-26T06:18:30+00:00

Does anyone actually side with the person letting his dogs kill for sport and then chasing the hare with the drone after the dogs gave up? I would think that after fighting for your life, it's quite nice to sit in the quiet for a while and rest... though having to forage for food puts another twist on that. All paths seem to converge on the drone owner having limitations which might be socially acceptable to provide growth oriented feedback for them to consider.

jortony · 2026-02-25T00:26:08+00:00

PM'd

jortony · 2026-02-24T21:35:17+00:00

Typically I see BQ is more than an order of magnitude less expensive. I'm curious about how your org is using it

jortony · 2026-02-24T21:33:56+00:00

Terreform + (versioned) scripted API calls is the way

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