Practical guides, architectural deep-dives, and real-world case studies for enterprise teams building on Google Cloud Vertex AI and Gemini.
The playbook collects practical guides for enterprise teams building on Google Cloud Vertex AI and Gemini: an architecture walkthrough, a decision guide and a worked case study.
Start with the guide on architecting your first Vertex AI agent if you are new to the platform. If you are choosing between Vertex AI and calling the Gemini API directly, the comparison guide covers compliance, managed infrastructure, MLOps and cost trade-offs. The retail personalisation case study shows how Recommendations AI, BigQuery ML and Gemini were combined in a real build.
| Guide | Type | Read it when |
|---|---|---|
| Architect Your First Vertex AI Agent | Guide | You are designing a first production agent and need to choose models, grounding, memory and tools |
| Vertex AI vs Gemini API | Comparison | You are deciding between managed Vertex AI and the Gemini API directly |
| Retail Personalisation on Vertex AI | Case study | You want to see how a real-time personalisation engine was built |
Enterprise architects, engineering leads and technical buyers evaluating or building on Vertex AI and Gemini.
Read "Architect Your First Vertex AI Agent" first. It frames the choices the other guides go into more deeply.
The comparison guide covers it in detail. Vertex AI tends to fit when you need enterprise compliance, managed infrastructure and MLOps. The Gemini API is lighter for simpler use cases.
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