Firas Esbai
Writing about data systems, AI, and engineering practices.
I'm a lead data engineer with 10 years of experience focused on building reliable data applications and platforms. This site is where I document what I learn about data engineering, AI systems, architecture tradeoffs, and the practices that make systems easier to operate and evolve.
Latest Articles
- Data Engineering
How AI is Changing the Data Engineering Role
How AI is reshaping data engineering, from business context and data pipelines to data quality, RAG, vector databases...
- AI Engineering
AI Coding Agents: A Practical Guide
Practical guide on what AI coding agents are, best practices and features that extend their capabilities and how...
- AI Engineering
Building Semantic Search for This Blog
Guide on how to build a semantic search using fastapi, faiss and sentence-transformers on google cloud
