Shahvaiz Janjua - High On Cloud

Shahvaiz Janjua

Fast-or-Verify Pattern

Most NL→SQL demos are impressive… right up to the moment you need real guarantees. In finance, healthcare, or regulated ops, “pretty good” isn’t good enough. This article lays out a two‑lane architecture that answers known questions instantly and routes novel ones to human‑in‑the‑loop (HITL)

RAG to Reality: What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation ?

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 Retrieval-Augmented Generation, as well as the Oracle published blog: RAG to reality: Amplify AI and cut costs. A mouthful! But an accurate description. A

OCI LoadBalancer - Free SSL & Autorenewal (Let's Encrypt & Certbot)

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 expire. We'll use Terraform to do all of our Infrastructure setup, so we can focus on the Certificates & Automation! Components Oracle Cloud

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

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 code through snippets, finished off with a networking explanation pertaining to the main OCI components We are effectively using the methodology explained in the

[Updated] Creating a Free Blog on OCI

[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 which gives you 4 OCPUs (8 Threads) & 24GB RAM for FREE. We'll be also be using the Always Free Network Load Balancer & Bastion Service. We'll

Creating a Free (HTTPS) Blog on Oracle Cloud

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 site is hosted on OCI using these very steps). We'll first have a very short introduction into the various components involved in