Solving Gemini API Cold Starts — Production-Grade Startup Optimization for Cloud Run, Lambda, and Workers
When you put Gemini API on serverless, the first request takes six seconds. This guide breaks down where the time goes and shows concrete startup-optimization patterns for Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, and Cloudflare Workers — with real numbers, runnable code, and cost trade-off advice.
Gemini API × Cloudflare D1: A Zero-Cold-Start AI Backend Under $10/Month — Implementation Notes
Build a zero-cold-start, globally distributed AI backend with Cloudflare Workers + D1 (edge SQLite) and Gemini API — conversation history, rate limiting, post-stream write latency, and a real $8.50/month cost breakdown, from a deployment I actually operate.
Gemini 3.1 Pro × Cloud Run: Building Production Serverless AI APIs
Deploy Gemini 3.1 Pro on Cloud Run with SSE streaming, auto-scaling, cold start optimization, and production monitoring — the definitive guide to building serverless AI APIs.
Building Serverless AI Apps with Firebase Genkit and Gemini — An Implementation Notebook
A hands-on implementation notebook for building serverless AI apps with Firebase Genkit and Gemini. Flows, agents, and RAG on the current Genkit 1.x API, plus per-flow usage logging that turns spend into an itemized bill, the gaps between the Dev UI and production, and cold-start tuning.