I’ve been looking at some of the recent AI architecture models coming out of NVIDIA. They’re polished, coherent, and very strong on infrastructure. But something stood out immediately: they largely…
For a long time, the industry settled into a comfortable model for infrastructure. Two CPUs. A standard server. Add more boxes when you need more scale. Keep everything broadly interchangeable.…
In software development there has always been a tension between the effort invested before coding and the effort spent doing the coding. In mainframe days, the actual job of coding…
In a previous post, I wrote about the current narrative around AI agents “coding for hours” and what’s actually going on behind the scenes. If you haven’t read that, it’s…
There’s a growing narrative that AI agents can now “code for hours” and build meaningful applications with minimal human involvement I’ve spent a bit of time looking into this, and…
Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure Auth0, Create an ORDS JWT Profile, and Secure an Endpoint [ there is a companion GitHub to this post ] This is the hands-on companion to the…
Why This Pattern Works: Auth0 as Identity Provider, ORDS as Resource Server [ also see the companion GitHub repo ] I spent longer than I’d like to admit trying to…
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.