As I mentioned a week and a half ago, I’ve shifted this blog from being self-hosted to living on Google Cloud, because I didn’t want to spend time maintaining a web-serving infrastructure at home. Obviously, there were many ways that I could have solved this problem. I decided on Google Cloud for a couple simple reasons. First, I work for them, but have very little experience as a customer (anti-disclaimer: I pay retail prices without a discount). Second, I already have an account and bil...