Google says Vertex AI is the managed future of ML on GCP. They're probably right. But the migration from self-hosted KubeFlow is 6-12 months of real work, not the 2-sprint effort that the consultants estimated.
VPC Service Controls prevent data exfiltration from GCP projects. Simple concept. Brutal consequences. Everything breaks the first time, and the error messages won't tell you why.
A thousand tiny Lambda functions scattered everywhere with no ownership, no contracts, and no way to test them locally. Sound familiar? Here's when serverless works, when it doesn't, and the discipline most teams skip.
AI-enabled revenue feels a lot like tulip bulbs in 1637. Everyone's hoarding data by the petabyte, hoping it'll bloom into gold. But most of it's weeds — and the only ones smiling are the lads selling shovels.
Post-merger tech consolidation is one of the most expensive, least glamorous problems in enterprise IT. Nobody talks about it because it's not sexy. But it's where careers go to die and budgets go to evaporate.
Most Kubernetes comparisons are feature matrices written by people who've read the docs. This is what the three major managed Kubernetes services actually feel like when you're running production workloads, handling upgrades at 2am, and arguing with IAM policies.