Google Cloud NEXT '26: A FULL STACK Developer’s Take on Cloud Run & AI

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge What Google Cloud NEXT '26 Actually Meant for Me as a Laravel Dev I'll be honest — I almost skipped the keynotes this year. When you're knee-deep in building your own e-commerce platform, watching enterprise announcements feels like sitting in a boardroom meeting you weren't invited to. Most of it is aimed at CTOs with $2M cloud budgets, not developers like me who are still figuring out the cleanest way to structure service classes