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title: "Vertex"
description: "2 posts about Vertex, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Vertex
> 2 posts about Vertex, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Google Cloud Use Cases: How Enterprises Run Data & AI on GCP with Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/post/google-cloud-use-cases-how-enterprises-run-data-ai-on-gcp-with-databri.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Databricks Staff
- Published: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Explainer

The guide presents Google Cloud as a unified platform for enterprise data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI, with managed services intended to reduce infrastructure and integration work. It focuses on practical architectures, including medallion ETL pipelines that store Bronze, Silver, and Gold Delta Lake tables in Google Cloud Storage and expose Gold data to BigQuery through an optimized connector. For streaming workloads, Cloud Pub/Sub supplies ingestion while Apache Spark Structured Streaming processes continuous micro-batches; together with Delta Lake ACID transactions, this supports exactly-once results despite duplicates or out-of-order messages. The text also describes Cloud Run and Cloud Functions for containerized or event-driven workloads, and identifies retrieval-augmented generation applications on Vertex AI as a common starting point for generative AI. It concludes that integrated service combinations, rather than isolated tools, are the central strategic advantage for organizations building evolving data and AI platforms on Google Cloud.


### [Behind the Scenes - A Glimpse into Tax Calculations](https://yomu.fyi/post/behind-the-scenes-a-glimpse-into-tax-calculations.md)
- Company: [Etsy](https://yomu.fyi/company/etsy.md)
- Author: Nancy Arnold
- Published: Mar 29, 2025
- Type: Explainer

As jurisdictions increasingly require marketplaces to collect and remit tax, Etsy describes the infrastructure it uses to calculate, record, and report taxes on transactions. When a buyer adds an item to a cart, Etsy sends a Quotation Request API call to Vertex, using buyer and seller locations, product category, tax rules, and mappings to determine the amount shown. At checkout and throughout fulfillment, DistributeTaxRequest SOAP calls carry order, cancellation, and refund details to Vertex, whose records support reporting and audit workflows imported into Etsy’s bigdata. The integration also required mapping Etsy taxonomy categories to Vertex rule drivers and separating quotation, distribution, and reporting workloads across multiple instances for horizontal scaling and load balancing. Shadow requests, ramped gradually without applying calculated taxes to carts, let the team simulate added Vertex load and monitor checkout performance before releasing traffic-increasing features.