Shahvaiz Janjua — WritingEssays, frameworks, and case studies on enterprise AI — what works, what doesn't, and the decisions that mattered.https://shahvaizjanjua.com/Why a tier-1 bank's first AI pilot didn't survive contact with productionhttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/bank-pilot-production/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/bank-pilot-production/What we got wrong about success criteria — and the three things I'd change.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTA scoping checklist for enterprise AI pilots that I actually usehttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/scoping-checklist/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/scoping-checklist/Twelve questions to ask before the first sprint — honest about the ones that get skipped.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe demo is the easy part. Production is where the architecture earns its keephttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/demo-is-the-easy-part/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/demo-is-the-easy-part/What changes when a demo that impressed the board has to run every day.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFast-or-Verify Patternhttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/no-new-sql/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/no-new-sql/Most NL→SQL demos are impressive… right up to the moment you need real guarantees.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTSecuring Backend APIs with GCP API Gateway and Auth0https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/securing-backend-apis-with-gcp-api-gateway-and-auth0/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/securing-backend-apis-with-gcp-api-gateway-and-auth0/You've had your billion dollar, unicorn start-up idea.Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTCORS in GCP API Gatewayhttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/cors-in-gcp-api-gateway/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/cors-in-gcp-api-gateway/If you're like me, building an application with Backend APIs protected behind a Google Cloud API Gateway, you've probably encountered a common issue: The ability to…Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTOracle Cloud DevOps: CI/CD is real!https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/oci-cicd-automation/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/oci-cicd-automation/A guide for implementing CI/CD Automation on Oracle Cloud DevOpsWed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTRAG to Reality: What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation ?https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/what-is-rag/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/what-is-rag/This blog series is a longer format and expansion of my UK Oracle User Group presentation, titled; RAG to Reality: A deep-dive into enhancing AI with…Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTOCI LoadBalancer - Free SSL & Autorenewal (Let's Encrypt & Certbot)https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/oci-lb-free-ssl-cert/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/oci-lb-free-ssl-cert/In this article we'll look at setting up SSL Certificates for free on OCI LoadBalancer (LB), as well as automatically renewing the certificates in the LB when they…Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTAdvanced Networking - Using DRG to route certain traffic through centralized Network Firewall (and other traffic direct to Spoke) [Terraform]https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/advanced-networking-drg/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/advanced-networking-drg/In this article you'll find the full terraform script to spin up & configure the end-2-end architecture, a long with a selective walkthrough of the main terraform…Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT[Updated] Creating a Free Blog on OCIhttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/updated-creating-a-free-blog-on-oci/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/updated-creating-a-free-blog-on-oci/In this updated article we'll walkthrough the steps to create a free blog hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, utilising Oracle's very generous Ampere A1 instance…Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTCreating a Free (HTTPS) Blog on Oracle Cloudhttps://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/free-blog-on-oci/https://shahvaizjanjua.com/writing/free-blog-on-oci/In this article we'll walkthrough the steps to create a free website or blog hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (FYI, at the time of writing this article this…Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT