gcp-compute-selection

name	gcp-compute-selection
description	Choose GCP compute by operational burden: Cloud Run (default for stateless containers/HTTP, scale-to-zero), GKE/Autopilot (k8s/portability), Cloud Functions (small event handlers), GCE (legacy); design Pub/Sub integration with idempotency + dead-letter topics.

GCP Compute Selection

Workload	Compute
Stateless container / HTTP (most services)	Cloud Run (default)
Need k8s / portability	GKE (Autopilot to cut ops)
Small event handler	Cloud Functions
Legacy / specific OS	GCE

Cloud Run is the right default; reach for GKE only when k8s genuinely earns it.

Integration

Pub/Sub to decouple; consumers idempotent + dead-letter topic. No hand-rolled queues.