Brian Curtin

Black Canyon 100K 2021 Race Recap

Brian Curtin — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:00:00 GMT

"Net downhill" is somewhat synonymous with "fast". In road running, there are regulations in place that limit how much drop a point-to-point course can have before it becomes invalid for record purposes. Boston, a generally fast marathon—mostly due to its qualification purposes—is aided in its relative speed due to a –447' net elevation. It's too downhill for records purposes. When Geoffrey Mutai ran 2:03:02 in 2011 it was the fastest marathon at the time, but not a world record.

Trail running is a different story all together. While trails vary widely, they generally favor the uphill. Black Canyon 100K is not like that.

I underestimated it. Don't make that same mistake.

Using Elastic APM to visualize asyncio behavior

Brian Curtin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:00:00 GMT

A few weeks ago, Chris Wellons' blog "Latency in Asynchronous Python" was shared on our internal #python channel at Elastic, and as someone looking into the performance characteristics of a recent asyncio-related change, I gave it a read and you should too. It was a timely post as it made me think ahead about a few things, and coincided nicely with our recent usage of Elastic's Application Performance Monitoring solution.

Use glom

Brian Curtin — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:26:00 GMT

Dictionaries are really cool. They're very powerful and a large part of Python: so much stuff is built on the dict type. They're generally quite easy to work with, but what about when you have nested dictionaries that contain lists that contain dictionaries that contain certain keys only in some cases and sometimes there's another list involved?

Use glom.

Starting Over

Brian Curtin — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:42:32 GMT

This is the first post. It's not the first post I've ever written on this site, but it's now the first one this site contains.