Tech Guide

Building Your Own Tech Blog on GCP Free Credits — Wagtail + Cloud Run + Cloud SQL + Custom Domain

A step-by-step guide to building a production-ready blog from scratch using GCP's $300 free credits. Covers Wagtail CMS setup, Cloud SQL Auth Proxy configuration, TinyMCE editor integration, Docker containerization, Cloud Run serverless deployment, and custom domain configuration with automatic SSL.

April 10, 2026

How to Customize Your Own Wagtail Blog on GCP — Following Your 1st Setup

A practical guide to customizing a Wagtail CMS blog: separating content by audience, sourcing and resizing NASA space images, and overriding the default theme styles.

April 11, 2026

Building Real-World AI Agent on GCP — Project Design & Architecture

The Complete Hands-On Playbook — From Plan to Production. Covers GCP project setup, Cloud SQL schema design with 3NF normalization, MariaDB-to-Cloud SQL migration, BigQuery dataset creation, and ai_agent_db ERD design for an Autonomous Marketing Agent.

April 23, 2026

Building Real-World AI Agent on GCP — Data Pipeline: CDC, ETL & Orchestration

Building a Real-Time Data Pipeline on GCP: Datastream CDC, Dataform ETL, and Cloud Workflows Orchestration — From Cloud SQL to ML-Ready Feature Store

April 28, 2026

Building Real-World AI Agent on GCP — Vertex AI, RAG & Gemini API

Predicting top customers with Vertex AI Random Forest, retrieving brand knowledge via LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline, and generating personalized Mother's Day offers with Gemini API — From ML Prediction to AI-Powered Campaign Offers

May 2, 2026

Building Real-World AI Agent on GCP — BI Dashboard & AI Agent in Action

Close the loop on a fully autonomous GCP marketing agent — visualizing campaign results with Looker Studio connected directly to BigQuery, and seeing AI Agent in action as Gemini API automatically generates personalized HTML email content for each target customer, delivered via SendGrid on Cloud Run, with full email content and delivery history stored in BigQuery.

May 3, 2026

Before the Shelves Go Empty: A First Step Toward Business World Models

A first attempt at Business World Models: using TFT + GDELT news signals + Monte Carlo to simulate disaster-driven retail demand shocks across US Polar Vortex 2014 and Germany Elbe Flood 2013. Cross-country validation included.

May 16, 2026

Before the Blackout: Building an Energy World Model with Grid2Op and RL

Can AI prevent the next Texas blackout? We build an Energy World Model using real PJM/EIA data, Grid2Op simulation, and a PPO reinforcement learning agent that survives 2x longer than baseline under disaster conditions.

May 22, 2026

Before the Gridlock: Predicting I-94 Traffic with Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gemini AI

Can AI predict rush hour before it happens? We build a Traffic World Model using 6 years of real I-94 sensor data, a Temporal Fusion Transformer that forecasts the full next 24 hours in one pass, and a Gemini LLM agent that converts predictions into actionable traffic advisories

May 24, 2026