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The last few days, the Website was going really slow again. And I was preparing for a frustrating fight with Bitnami, Google Cloud, and whatever else to figure things out.

I have to admit that this is not what happened. Google Cloud has a Gemini-powered Cloud Assist chatbot. And I just asked it what to do. The suggestions sounded reasonable, and it wrote down the exact commands. A few times I came to an error, but just copy-pasting it to the assistant, it quickly found out what to do instead, and, well, it seemed to have worked. The site is now up and running, and for the last half an hour or so, CPU utilisation has dropped dramatically. Cloud Assist predicted a drop from 100% utilisation to 5%, so far I can see 40%, but hey, that's a great start. I can actually read my own entries again!

Then I went a step further, to resolve a long-standing issue: the page did not have https yet. What was OK 25 years ago, when it launched, has long been something that browsers really loudly complain about. Rightfully.

Again, it was a question to cloud assist, and it took me through the steps.

All of the steps I did today, none of them were hard. It was, in fact, embarrassingly easy. It was just configuring tools that already were downloaded and existed and downloading and running one tool.

Well then, that's a win, for me and for AI! Thanks Google Cloud Assist!

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