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What's New in Polars 2.0: Streaming by Default and Stricter Types

Polars 2.0 runs your lazy queries up to 2.8x faster without code changes. See the new defaults, side by side with Polars 1.x, on real data.

Khuyen Tran

Oct 11, 2026 · 7 min read

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pixi on UBI-micro: A Safer, Smaller Multi-Stage Container Build

How a UBI-micro multi-stage build shrinks a pixi container's attack surface and CVE count, with side-by-side Trivy and Grype scans on UBI full, minimal, and micro.

Brandon Geraci

Jul 24, 2026 · 12 min read

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The `tp_as_number` Slot and Binary Operation Dispatch in CPython

How CPython dispatches binary operations via tp_as_number slots, and how TorchDynamo mirrors that model to improve correctness and reduce ad-hoc special cases.

Guilherme Leobas

Jun 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Python Tooling

We Benchmarked 6 Python Package Managers on a Real ML Project. Here's What We Found.

Head-to-head benchmark of pixi, uv, conda, mamba, pip, and poetry on a real ML/AI project with 25+ mixed conda-forge and PyPI dependencies.

Brandon Geraci

Apr 22, 2026 · 6 min read

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What's New in Polars 2.0: Streaming by Default and Stricter Types

pixi on UBI-micro: A Safer, Smaller Multi-Stage Container Build

The tp_as_number Slot and Binary Operation Dispatch in CPython

We Benchmarked 6 Python Package Managers on a Real ML Project. Here's What We Found.

The `tp_as_number` Slot and Binary Operation Dispatch in CPython