Firas Bouzazi
Computer science background, broadly curious about tech. These days I'm building data platforms, and I write down what I learn along the way.
Writing
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Data engineering with AI agents: a playbook
2026-09-23
How I'd let AI agents build data pipelines safely: tested building blocks, a contract, and people reviewing the important steps.
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Keeping the search space small
2026-09-23
A mental model for query performance: schema, indexes, partitioning, and sharding are all ways to shrink how much data the engine has to read.
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Starting a blog
2026-09-23
Why I'm keeping notes in public, and how this little corner is built. No framework, no tracking, just text.
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Apache Iceberg compaction in practice
2026-05-26
How Iceberg is organized, why small files hurt, how to run compaction with Spark and on AWS, the three strategies, and the rest of table maintenance.