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From Strategy to Code

Services/Delivery & Engineering/Cloud & DevOps

Google Cloud Engineering · GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Vertex AI

GCP engineering — the cloud where data and AI workloads tend to be the deciding factor. GKE for Kubernetes, Cloud Run for serverless containers, BigQuery for analytics, and Vertex AI when the model surface is meaningful.

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Why HXRL

Our point of view

We pick GCP when BigQuery or Vertex AI are commercially load-bearing, and we ship it with the same landing-zone and IAM discipline we apply to AWS or Azure. Hierarchical resources and Organisation Policies are the floor.

Outcome

A GCP estate where data, AI, and product teams can move without trampling each other's IAM or quota.

What we ship

Google Cloud Engineering

Concrete deliverables — not adjectives. Each engagement scopes which of these are in play and what success looks like for them.

01GCP landing zones (Organisation, Folders, Projects, Org Policies)
02GKE, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions compute
03BigQuery data warehouse architecture
04Vertex AI for managed ML and LLM workloads
05Terraform IaC and Cloud Build CI/CD
FAQ

Questions clients actually ask

Drawn from sales calls, not SEO filler. Want a question added? Drop it in the form on this page — we update from real enquiries.

GKE or Cloud Run?+

Cloud Run for stateless services and most product backends. GKE when you have Kubernetes-shaped requirements (StatefulSets, custom controllers, multi-tenant platform).

When does GCP win over AWS or Azure?+

When BigQuery is the data-warehouse decision, when Vertex AI's tooling is meaningfully ahead for the workload, or when the team has GCP muscle memory.

Firebase under the GCP umbrella?+

Yes — Firebase services are GCP. We use Firebase Auth, Firestore, and Cloud Functions where they fit, and graduate to GCP-native (Postgres, GKE) when the workload outgrows Firebase shape.

Multi-cloud — do you discourage it?+

Not categorically. Single-cloud is simpler. Multi-cloud is justified when there are real reasons (procurement, data residency, vendor concentration risk). We'll be honest about the operational cost.

Get in touch

Talk to a senior engineer about Google Cloud Engineering.

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