If you've used asyncio for some time you've probably noticed a few things that work differently to the synchronous counter parts.
I recently had to add some caching to an asyncio function. Let's say something like:
async def get_user(user_id: UUID) -> User:
...
Of course naturally we want to use functools …
read moreI've been on vacation in China leading up the lunar new year and I'd rather not spend all my time researching some heavy topic. However, I thought I might instead spend a few minutes combining my previous posts on marimo notebooks and the Lunar calendar.
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Recently I've been updating some of my libraries to Python 3.10+ after Python 3.9 has finally reached end of life.
The upgrade to Python 3.10 is a relatively simple one, but I thought it be a good idea to run tests on different versions of Python.
Recently I've been working on framework to run LLM tasks using AWS's excellent SQS. And I made the decision to write my own task framework/library as opposed to using a pre-exiting framework. I thought this would be a great opportunity to discuss the considerations and levels of abstractions involved …
read moreDon't listen to random benchmarks..
I recently came across an article benchmarking Python performances in web frameworks, comparing asyncio and sync performance.
The author sets out to measure performance of FastAPI/Django web servers running with postgresql comparing async and non-async workloads. The methodology is pretty reasonable, the following is …
read more... but that's actually a good thing
I've already written a ton about subinterpreters since a year ago:
Recently I had some time to dig a bit deeper into subinterpreters and check my understanding …
read moreAs we approach the holiday seasons, we get to "enjoy" another 12 days of Advent of Code. Every year I try to do something a little different, last year I had a lot of fun solving it in Ocaml, prior years I've tried the latest Python features. This year I've …
read moreSo I've just released a package called lazy-helper. This comes as lazy loading has been a hot topic once again due to the proposal PEP-810.
Using my package we can define lazy loaded dependencies nicely:
Coincidentally Brian Okken has recently written a blog post covering the topic of lazy loading …
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