Welcome! I'm a software engineer, and I like blogging about Python and programming in general. I'm the author of several open-source Python libraries, including Peewee ORM, Huey task queue, and lots more. Below you can find a list of my most recent blog posts.
If you don't know what you're doing here, check out some posts I'm not too embarrassed of.
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AsyncIO
I'd like to put forth my current thinking about asyncio. I hope this will answer some of the questions I've received as to whether Peewee will one day support asyncio, but moreso I hope it will encourage some readers (especially in the web development crowd) to question whether asyncio is appropriate for their project, and if so, look into alternatives like gevent.
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Caching trick for Python web applications
I'd like to share a simple trick I use to reduce roundtrips pulling data from a cache server (like Redis or Kyoto Tycoon. Both Redis and Kyoto Tycoon support efficient bulk-get operations, so it makes sense to read as many keys from the cache as we can when performing an operation that may need to access multiple cached values. This is especially true in web applications, as a typical web-page may multiple chunks of data and rendered HTML from a cache (fragment-caching) to build the final page that is sent as a response.
If we know ahead-of-time which cache-keys we need to fetch, we could just grab the cached data in one Redis/KT request and hold onto it in memory for the duration of the request.
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Peewee now supports CockroachDB
I'm pleased to announce that Peewee now supports CockroachDB (CRDB), the distributed, horizontally-scalable SQL database. I'm excited about this release, because it's now quite easy to get up-and-running with a robust SQL database that can scale out with minimal effort (documentation).
Here is how you configure a
CockroachDatabaseinstance:from playhouse.cockroachdb import CockroachDatabase db = CockroachDatabase('my_app', user='root', host='10.1.0.8', port=26257)CRDB conveniently provides a very similar SQL dialect to Postgres, which has been well-supported in Peewee for many years, allowing you to use features like jsonb and arrays, in addition to the regular complement of field-types. Additionally, CRDB speaks the same wire-protocol as Postgres, so it works out-of-the-box using the popular
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New features planned for Python 4.0
With the release of Python 3.8 coming soon, the core development team has asked me to summarize our latest discussions on the new features planned for Python 4.0, codename "ouroboros: the snake will eat itself". This will be an exciting release and a significant milestone, many thanks to the hard work of over 100 contributors.
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