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Agentic Enterprise: OCI GenAI Agents Are Secure, Observable, and Scalable (A Step-by-Step Guide)

2026-03-23 post Matt Ferguson
In this post I move beyond a simple RAG agent and build an enterprise-ready architecture that is secure, observable, and scales. This is a step-by-step, code-first deployment of OCI’s Generative AI Agent Service using Terraform, OCI CLI, and Python to build a resilient AI agent. Continue reading

Oracle Acceleron AI Networking on OCI — Explained

2025-10-21 post Matt Ferguson
When you’ve spent a career in networking as I did at Cisco designing global service provider backbones and architecting massively scalable enterprise data-centers, you start to appreciate the art of engineering trade-offs.The subtle details behind ASIC design, optical signaling, and network hops can make-or-break stringent performance tolerances; they can also directly influence business outcomes. That’s why, for me, one of the most significant announcements at Oracle AI World wasn’t about GPUs, it was about networking. Specifically, Oracle’s Acceleron fabric, the new backbone of OCI’s AI infrastructure. Continue reading

How to Build a Serverless Image Analysis Pipeline on OCI

2025-09-24 post Matt Ferguson
This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough for building a complete, serverless image analysis pipeline on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You’ll learn how to deploy a containerized web app that saves uploaded images to Object Storage, automatically triggering an event-driven serverless Function. This function then leverages the OCI Vision AI service to perform object detection, ultimately storing the resulting JSON metadata in an Oracle Autonomous Database to create a powerful, end-to-end workflow that transforms raw images into structured, analyzable data. Continue reading