Building a Real-Time Surplus Engine with Gemini 3 Flash & AlloyDB

​In this hands-on workshop, we’ll build Neighbor Loop — a sustainable surplus-sharing web app that treats intelligence as a first-class citizen of the data layer.

​Instead of traditional app-layer AI workflows, we’ll explore In-Database Intelligence by integrating Gemini 3.0 Flash with AlloyDB AI, enabling multimodal reasoning and semantic discovery directly inside SQL — without latency or architectural bloat.

​🛠️ What We’ll Build

• ​A high-performance “swipe-to-match” web application for community surplus sharing

• ​Intelligent matching powered by AI-driven context, not just keywords or vectors

​📚 What You’ll Learn

• ​One-Click Provisioning
  Set up an AlloyDB cluster and instance optimized for AI workloads

• ​In-Database Embeddings
  Generate text-embedding-005 vectors directly inside INSERT statements

• ​Multimodal Reasoning
  Use Gemini 3.0 Flash to analyze images and auto-generate witty, dating-style item bios

• ​Semantic Discovery in SQL
  Perform logic-based “vibe checks” using ai.if() to filter results by context, not just math

​🧠 Architecture Overview

​Neighbor Loop eliminates traditional application-layer bottlenecks by processing intelligence where the data lives:

• ​AlloyDB AI — real-time vector generation and storage

• ​Google Cloud Storage — image storage

• ​Gemini 3.0 Flash — sub-second reasoning on image + text via SQL

• ​Cloud Run — lightweight single-file Flask backend

​🎯 Who Should Attend

• ​Beginners looking to explore AI-native databases

• ​Intermediate developers working with SQL, Python, or cloud platforms

• ​Anyone curious about building AI applications without traditional AI pipelines

​⚙️ Prerequisites & Access

​Please ensure you have:

• ​A modern web browser (Chrome / Firefox recommended)

• ​Basic familiarity with SQL and Python

​🎁 All participants will receive FREE Google Cloud credits to complete the hands-on workshop on Google Cloud Platform — no personal cloud billing or paid setup required.

​🧪 Session Format

• ​Fully hands-on workshop

• ​Beginner-friendly and intermediate (middle-level) friendly

• ​Live building, live querying, real AI inside the database

• ​Practical takeaways you can apply immediately

​🎓 Completion Certificate: Participants who successfully complete the hands-on workshop from start to finish will receive a Certificate of Completion.

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