Case studies, frameworks, essays.
Why a tier-1 bank's first AI pilot didn't survive contact with production
What we got wrong about success criteria — and the three things I'd change.
FrameworkA scoping checklist for enterprise AI pilots that I actually use
Twelve questions to ask before the first sprint — honest about the ones that get skipped.
EssayThe demo is the easy part. Production is where the architecture earns its keep
What changes when a demo that impressed the board has to run every day.
Fast-or-Verify Pattern
Most NL→SQL demos are impressive… right up to the moment you need real guarantees.
Securing Backend APIs with GCP API Gateway and Auth0
You've had your billion dollar, unicorn start-up idea.
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…
Oracle Cloud DevOps: CI/CD is real!
A guide for implementing CI/CD Automation on Oracle Cloud DevOps
RAG to Reality: What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation ?
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…
OCI LoadBalancer - Free SSL & Autorenewal (Let's Encrypt & Certbot)
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…
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Advanced Networking - Using DRG to route certain traffic through centralized Network Firewall (and other traffic direct to Spoke) [Terraform]
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…
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[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…
Creating a Free (HTTPS) Blog on Oracle Cloud
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…