diff --git a/crates/core/src/context.rs b/crates/core/src/context.rs
index a261ea7..d48df98 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/context.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/context.rs
@@ -16,15 +16,23 @@ use crate::utils::get_default_optimizer_rules;
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Context {
-    session_conext: Arc<RwLock<SessionContext>>,
+    pub session_conext: Arc<RwLock<SessionContext>>,
 }
 
 impl Context {
     pub fn new() -> Result<Self, DataFusionError> {
-        let config = SessionConfig::new().set(
-            "datafusion.execution.batch_size",
-            datafusion::common::ScalarValue::UInt64(Some(32)),
-        );
+        let config = SessionConfig::new()
+            .set(
+                "datafusion.execution.batch_size",
+                datafusion::common::ScalarValue::UInt64(Some(32)),
+            )
+            // coalesce_batches slows down the pipeline and increases latency as it tries to concat
+            // small batches together so we disable it.
+            .set(
+                "datafusion.execution.coalesce_batches",
+                datafusion::common::ScalarValue::Boolean(Some(false)),
+            );
+
         let runtime = Arc::new(RuntimeEnv::default());
 
         let state = SessionStateBuilder::new()
diff --git a/crates/core/src/datastream.rs b/crates/core/src/datastream.rs
index 5e2159b..af877ea 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/datastream.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/datastream.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use datafusion::execution::SendableRecordBatchStream;
 use datafusion::logical_expr::{
     logical_plan::LogicalPlanBuilder, utils::find_window_exprs, Expr, JoinType,
 };
+use datafusion::physical_plan::display::DisplayableExecutionPlan;
 
 use crate::context::Context;
 use crate::datasource::kafka::{ConnectionOpts, KafkaTopicBuilder};
@@ -163,13 +164,28 @@ impl DataStream {
         Ok(self)
     }
 
-    /// Prints the underlying logical_plan.
+    /// Prints the underlying logical plan.
     /// Useful for debugging chained method calls.
     pub fn print_plan(self) -> Result<Self, DataFusionError> {
         println!("{}", self.df.logical_plan().display_indent());
         Ok(self)
     }
 
+    /// Prints the underlying physical plan.
+    /// Useful for debugging and development
+    pub async fn print_physical_plan(self) -> Result<Self, DataFusionError> {
+        let (session_state, plan) = self.df.as_ref().clone().into_parts();
+        let physical_plan = self.df.as_ref().clone().create_physical_plan().await?;
+        let displayable_plan = DisplayableExecutionPlan::new(physical_plan.as_ref());
+
+        println!("{}", displayable_plan.indent(true));
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            df: Arc::new(DataFrame::new(session_state, plan)),
+            context: self.context.clone(),
+        })
+    }
+
     /// execute the stream and write the results to a give kafka topic
     pub async fn sink_kafka(
         self,
diff --git a/examples/examples/emit_measurements.rs b/examples/examples/emit_measurements.rs
index 65a7198..736b81e 100644
--- a/examples/examples/emit_measurements.rs
+++ b/examples/examples/emit_measurements.rs
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
             .await
             .unwrap();
 
-        tokio::time::sleep(tokio::time::Duration::from_millis(1)).await;
+        tokio::time::sleep(tokio::time::Duration::from_micros(1)).await;
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/examples/examples/simple_aggregation.rs b/examples/examples/simple_aggregation.rs
index 4097ea5..4682819 100644
--- a/examples/examples/simple_aggregation.rs
+++ b/examples/examples/simple_aggregation.rs
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let ds = ctx
         .from_topic(source_topic)
         .await?
-        // .filter(col("reading").gt(lit(70)))?
         .window(
             vec![],
             vec![
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
             Duration::from_millis(1_000),
             None,
         )?
-        .filter(col("max").lt(lit(113)))?;
+        .filter(col("max").gt(lit(113)))?;
 
     ds.clone().print_stream().await?;