Shahvaiz Janjua
Writing

Case studies, frameworks, essays.

Case study

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.

2 min read
Framework

A 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.

1 min read
Essay

The 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.

1 min read
Fast-or-Verify Pattern
Guide

Fast-or-Verify Pattern

Most NL→SQL demos are impressive… right up to the moment you need real guarantees.

3 min read
Securing Backend APIs with GCP API Gateway and Auth0
Guide

Securing Backend APIs with GCP API Gateway and Auth0

You've had your billion dollar, unicorn start-up idea.

4 min read
CORS in GCP API Gateway
Guide

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…

4 min read
Oracle Cloud DevOps: CI/CD is real!
Guide

Oracle Cloud DevOps: CI/CD is real!

A guide for implementing CI/CD Automation on Oracle Cloud DevOps

8 min read
RAG to Reality: What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation ?
Guide

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…

9 min read
OCI LoadBalancer - Free SSL & Autorenewal (Let's Encrypt & Certbot)
Guide

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…

10 min read
Advanced Networking - Using DRG to route certain traffic through centralized Network Firewall (and other traffic direct to Spoke) [Terraform]
Guide

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…

18 min read
[Updated] Creating a Free Blog on OCI
Guide

[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…

7 min read
Creating a Free (HTTPS) Blog on Oracle Cloud
Guide

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…

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