--- title: PyData Amsterdam 2023: Polars and a Peek into the... description: A conference talk from PyData Amsterdam featuring Ritchie Vink explaining the internals of the Polars expression engine, covering how it achieves speed and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pydata-amsterdam-2023-polars-and-a-peek-into-the-expression-engine-uekctqgpi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PyData Amsterdam 2023: Polars and a Peek into the Expression Engine | daily.dev og:description: A conference talk from PyData Amsterdam featuring Ritchie Vink explaining the internals of the Polars expression engine, covering how it achieves speed and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pydata-amsterdam-2023-polars-and-a-peek-into-the-expression-engine-uekctqgpi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UEKcTqgpi.png og:image:alt: PyData Amsterdam 2023: Polars and a Peek into the Expression Engine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PyData Amsterdam 2023: Polars and a Peek into the Expression Engine **[Polars Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/polars)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A conference talk from PyData Amsterdam featuring Ritchie Vink explaining the internals of the Polars expression engine, covering how it achieves speed and flexibility through its query optimizer and physical execution layer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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