Principal Enterprise Architect for Data & AI. I design the platforms enterprises run their data on, and still write the pipelines that fill them. 2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/ Florian Zeba florian@fzeba.com Content copyright Florian Zeba 2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/65-realtime-bidding-ad-tracking/

Every ad you see is the visible residue of a data broadcast you don't. This is a field-level tour of that broadcast — what it carries, who catches it, how it becomes a profile, and where the profile ends up deciding things about your life.

<p>Every ad you see is the visible residue of a data broadcast you don't. This is a field-level tour of that broadcast — what it carries, who catches it, how it becomes a profile, and where the profile ends up deciding things about your life.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/65-realtime-bidding-ad-tracking/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/64-graphs-for-learning/

Why building a concept map beats studying one, why the untyped wikilink throws away the information you needed, and how to layer embeddings, LLM triple extraction, and structural gap detection on top without letting the machine author your graph.

<p>Why building a concept map beats studying one, why the untyped wikilink throws away the information you needed, and how to layer embeddings, LLM triple extraction, and structural gap detection on top without letting the machine author your graph.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/64-graphs-for-learning/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z 2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/63-fabric-writeback-rayfin-engine/

A full technical walkthrough of building a governed write-back interface on Microsoft Fabric Apps with the Rayfin SDK — static hosting, Entra ID SSO, and a server-side functions proxy to an existing REST API, with no separate web app to maintain.

<p>A full technical walkthrough of building a governed write-back interface on Microsoft Fabric Apps with the Rayfin SDK — static hosting, Entra ID SSO, and a server-side functions proxy to an existing REST API, with no separate web app to maintain.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/63-fabric-writeback-rayfin-engine/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/62-databricks-dqx-data-quality/

A practical guide to DQX, the PySpark-native data quality framework from Databricks Labs that quarantines bad data before it reaches your gold tables.

<p>A practical guide to DQX, the PySpark-native data quality framework from Databricks Labs that quarantines bad data before it reaches your gold tables.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/62-databricks-dqx-data-quality/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/61-paperbanana-academic-figure-generation/

A technical deep dive into PaperBanana, an open-source agentic pipeline that generates publication-quality methodology diagrams and statistical plots from text.

<p>A technical deep dive into PaperBanana, an open-source agentic pipeline that generates publication-quality methodology diagrams and statistical plots from text.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/61-paperbanana-academic-figure-generation/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/60-dspy-programming-llms-gepa/

Why Stanford's DSPy framework treats prompts as compiled artifacts, and how GEPA — the ICLR 2026 Oral — outperforms reinforcement learning with 35x fewer rollouts.

<p>Why Stanford's DSPy framework treats prompts as compiled artifacts, and how GEPA — the ICLR 2026 Oral — outperforms reinforcement learning with 35x fewer rollouts.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/60-dspy-programming-llms-gepa/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/59-microsoft-data-formulator-concept-binding/

Exploring Microsoft Research's Data Formulator, the concept-binding paradigm, and how its AI agents remove the tidy-data tax from visualization authoring.

<p>Exploring Microsoft Research's Data Formulator, the concept-binding paradigm, and how its AI agents remove the tidy-data tax from visualization authoring.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/59-microsoft-data-formulator-concept-binding/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/58-open-service-broker-api-guide/

How the Open Service Broker API turned the N x M problem of platform-service integration into N + M, and how it fits alongside Kubernetes Operators today.

<p>How the Open Service Broker API turned the N x M problem of platform-service integration into N + M, and how it fits alongside Kubernetes Operators today.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/58-open-service-broker-api-guide/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/57-turbovec-turboquant-vector-index/

A walkthrough of turbovec, a Rust + Python vector index built on Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm — 16x compression, faster than FAISS, no codebook training.

<p>A walkthrough of turbovec, a Rust + Python vector index built on Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm — 16x compression, faster than FAISS, no codebook training.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/57-turbovec-turboquant-vector-index/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-04-25T00:00:00.000Z 2026-04-25T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/56-bocpy-behavior-oriented-concurrency/

How Microsoft Research's bocpy library brings deadlock-free, ownership-based concurrency to Python through cowns, behaviors, and CPython sub-interpreters.

<p>How Microsoft Research's bocpy library brings deadlock-free, ownership-based concurrency to Python through cowns, behaviors, and CPython sub-interpreters.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/56-bocpy-behavior-oriented-concurrency/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-02-21T00:00:00.000Z 2026-02-21T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/55-eclipse-dataspace-protocol/

How modern enterprises can share data while maintaining control and compliance

<p>How modern enterprises can share data while maintaining control and compliance</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/55-eclipse-dataspace-protocol/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-01-19T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-19T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/54-how-to-build-your-agentic-dev-container/

How I built a unified AI development environment in a Docker container, accessible from anywhere.

<p>How I built a unified AI development environment in a Docker container, accessible from anywhere.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/54-how-to-build-your-agentic-dev-container/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-01-18T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-18T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/53-subagents-for-dev-container/

How I built a multi-agent orchestration system using bash to coordinate specialized AI agents.

<p>How I built a multi-agent orchestration system using bash to coordinate specialized AI agents.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/53-subagents-for-dev-container/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2026-01-17T00:00:00.000Z 2026-01-17T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/52-cloud-based-agentic-dev-container/

A comprehensive guide to building a cloud-based AI development environment using Docker, Hetzner Cloud.

<p>A comprehensive guide to building a cloud-based AI development environment using Docker, Hetzner Cloud.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/52-cloud-based-agentic-dev-container/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2025-11-30T00:00:00.000Z 2025-11-30T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/51-schema-evolution-and-model-consistency/

How to maintain schema consistency and evolution in Microsoft Fabric.

<p>How to maintain schema consistency and evolution in Microsoft Fabric.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/51-schema-evolution-and-model-consistency/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2025-11-25T00:00:00.000Z 2025-11-25T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/50-microsoft-fabric-vs-openshif-on-premise/

A deep dive into the architectural differences between OpenShift Fabric.

<p>A deep dive into the architectural differences between OpenShift Fabric.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/50-microsoft-fabric-vs-openshif-on-premise/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2025-11-23T00:00:00.000Z 2025-11-23T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/49-microsoft-fabric-shortcuts/

Fabric Shortcuts architecture, cross-capacity access, medallion patterns, authentication models.

<p>Fabric Shortcuts architecture, cross-capacity access, medallion patterns, authentication models.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/49-microsoft-fabric-shortcuts/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2025-11-14T00:00:00.000Z 2025-11-14T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/48-terraform-fabric/

Terraform is a powerful tool for infrastructure as code, enabling you to define and manage your Microsoft Fabric resources programmatically.

<p>Terraform is a powerful tool for infrastructure as code, enabling you to define and manage your Microsoft Fabric resources programmatically.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/48-terraform-fabric/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2025-10-30T00:00:00.000Z 2025-10-30T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/47-us-crime-stats-in-ms-fabric/

Delta Lake is the foundational storage layer in Microsoft Fabric, enabling reliable, ACID-compliant data lakes that serve as a single source of truth for analytics.

<p>Delta Lake is the foundational storage layer in Microsoft Fabric, enabling reliable, ACID-compliant data lakes that serve as a single source of truth for analytics.</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/47-us-crime-stats-in-ms-fabric/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p> 2025-10-22T00:00:00.000Z 2025-10-22T00:00:00.000Z https://www.fzeba.com/posts/46-delta-lake-usage/

A deep dive into Delta Lake and its role in Microsoft Fabric for building reliable lakehouses

<p>A deep dive into Delta Lake and its role in Microsoft Fabric for building reliable lakehouses</p><p><a href="https://www.fzeba.com/posts/46-delta-lake-usage/">Read the full article on Florian Zeba</a></p>