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A curated entry point into my work. If you read only five posts — start with these.

1. Building a Mini Query Engine in Python — Plan & Architecture
From logical plans to execution pipeline.
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2. Logical Query Plans: Scan, Filter, Projection
How modern query engines think internally.
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3. Practical Introduction to Polars
Fast mental model for real production usage.
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4. ClickHouse SQL Experiments: Building a Bloom Filter
Deep dive into ClickHouse internals.
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5. Understanding Polars UDF Capabilities
Where Python fits and where it doesn’t.
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