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JK Gunnink's personal blog. Expect content about serverless, containers, devops and other personal musings.

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A free, self-hosted replacement for Google's code review bot

Because standing up a hosted service to queue other people’s diffs sounds like an afternoon I’d rather not spend.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Napkin Challenge

Draw an idea, on a napkin, get the ai to make it so. That how it be.

Vertex AI Router: An open source API back-end

Using Bun, Typescript, Hono complete with tests and deployment pipelines

Google Cloud Next 26 - Approaching Terminal Velocity! Also: Agents

Google is going all-in on AI agents. Here is a developer's perspective on Cloud Next '26, practical multi-agent systems, and why the new "shifting down" paradigm will change how we build.

Working with LLM tools: Context is all you need.

AI doesn't create original content. You do. This is a comprehensive builder’s guide to guiding Large Language Models and getting it to do what you meant, not what you said.

Vibe Coding a Fitness App with AI Studio & Gemini 3 Pro

A short note: I originally dictated this post.

The importance of batching writes at scale when using serverless tools

I know Firestore and BQ charge per use, but when you build you don't think about enormous use! Let's go batching!

Post-Mortem: How Grinches Stole My SES Quota (And How I Got It Back)

Between November 4th and November 6th, the Secret Santa app was targeted by a bot network that decided to use my infrastructure to send roughly 3,000 emails per minute. The result? My bounce rate exploded, my AWS bill twitched, and Amazon (rightfully) threw my Simple Email Service (SES) account into the loony bin.

The SaaS Toolbox on Google Cloud: Everything you need

...and a whole lot more.

Private Buckets with Cloud CDN for serving public assets: A complete walkthrough

How to have your cache and eat it too (securely).