Simon Griffiths

Focusing on Data, Architecture and AI

Simon Griffiths architects data-first systems, and is sceptical about the rest.

Drawing on long experience across enterprise data, architecture, and AI, he prefers platforms designed for reality, not just the latest narrative.

  • Building Apps on Oracle with AI on a Mac

    The most talked about way of connecting to an Oracle database from AI, whether Codex, Claude Code or another AI is MCP – it’s great and enables you to easily…


  • Business Rules and AI

    We are swiftly moving to a world where businesses will see AI agents as a primary channel for business processes. Chains of agents will push through a process from begin…


  • AI Trust and Data Security

    We have all heard the stories about AI agents going “rogue” and releasing information that is commercially sensitive or private and with the unpredictability of LLMs, this is a real…


  • Agent SKILLS for Oracle database

    While we can all building applications at light-speed with AI, ensuring that the code produced follows best practice is more difficult. LLMs are fundamentally based on public code, and code…


  • Data Lakes, Operational Reporting and Enterprise BI

    There has never been a time that data hasn’t been recognised to be as important as it is today. It seems that the world has woken up to the potential…


  • AI and Data

    The use of AI to write and maintain computer code has already become the industry norm – there can hardly be any programmers out there who are no seeing some…


  • Oracle SQL and MCP

    All of the main LLMs are pretty good at generating SQL, and they also have a pretty good understanding of the Oracle Data Dictionary. This means that if you can…


  • Microservices and Devops ? What would Adam Smith think …

    Some history It is no exaggeration to say that the relative prosperity of the world today is fundamentally based on the division of labour. The division of labour enabled us…


  • Removing the Object Relational Impedance

    Four Model In a previous article I looked at why object-relational impedance was still a thing, and why we need both ways of holding data – object model to facilitate…


  • Why developers and DBAs just don’t get on

    Introduction The enmity between developers and DBAs is both legendary and persistent. Developers get frustrated when DBAs take so long to do the simplest of tasks, and DBAs are disparaging…


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Simon Griffiths architects data-first systems, sceptical about the rest. Drawing on long experience across enterprise data, architecture, and AI, he prefers platforms designed for reality, not just the latest narrative.