GCP Cloud Architecture & DevOps for Commerce
Cloud Run microservices, Firebase, BigQuery, and CI/CD pipelines purpose-built for Square and Medusa commerce workloads. Infrastructure that scales with your revenue, not your headcount.
GCP Services We Deploy for Commerce
Containerized services deployed to Cloud Run: Square OAuth microservice, webhook processors, integration adapters, and scheduled jobs. Serverless, auto-scaling, and privately networked via VPC connector. Cold start times under 500ms with minimal footprint containers.
PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL for Medusa transactional data. Firestore for NestJS real-time products (Cashless, Just Reservations). Both provisioned with private IP, automated backups, and point-in-time recovery.
All Square transaction data, webhook events, and application logs flow into BigQuery. Looker Studio dashboards give operations and finance teams self-serve access to revenue, inventory, and integration health data.
What a GCP Engagement Delivers
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Every GCP resource defined in Terraform: Cloud Run services, Cloud SQL instances, Firebase projects, IAM bindings, Secret Manager secrets, and VPC configuration. Infrastructure is reviewable, version-controlled, and reproducible.
CI/CD Pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines)
Automated pipelines for build, test, and deploy. Branch-based environments: feature branches deploy to staging automatically; merges to main deploy to production with approval gates. Docker image builds cached for fast deploys.
Secret Manager Integration
All credentials — Square API keys, database passwords, third-party API tokens — stored in GCP Secret Manager. Applications reference secrets by name; no credentials in environment variables or repository files.
Monitoring and Alerting
Cloud Monitoring dashboards for service health, latency, error rates, and cold start frequency. Alert policies route to PagerDuty or Slack. SLO tracking for critical paths.
Cost Optimization
GCP billing analyzed monthly. Idle resources identified and right-sized. Cloud Run concurrency and minimum instances tuned to balance cold start avoidance against unnecessary spend.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about GCP cloud architecture for commerce.
Start Your GCP Project
Describe your current infrastructure and what you need to build or migrate.
Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
All resources version-controlled and reproducible.
CI/CD pipelines included
Automated build, test, and deploy from day one.
Secret Manager for all credentials
No secrets in .env files or repositories.
Cost optimization ongoing
Monthly billing review and right-sizing.
Start Your GCP Project
Describe your current infrastructure and what you need to build or migrate.
Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
All resources version-controlled and reproducible.
CI/CD pipelines included
Automated build, test, and deploy from day one.
Secret Manager for all credentials
No secrets in .env files or repositories.
Cost optimization ongoing
Monthly billing review and right-sizing.
