Simon Griffiths

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Category: architecture

  • NVIDIA Didn’t Miss the Data Problem — They Drew a Boundary Around It

    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…


  • AI Didn’t Break Infrastructure — It Exposed Its Edges

    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.…


  • What’s Next for Coders?

    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…


  • How to Build Good Software with AI — Not How You’ve Been Told

    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…


  • AI Agents Coding for Hours — What’s Really Going On?

    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…


  • Auth0 + ORDS on ADB – Playbook

    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…


  • Auth0 + ORDS on ADB – Architecture

    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…


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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.