fixup! Refactor persistence handling to introduce a create_persistenc…

…e_object function and update S3 and local file system handlers

Refactor to_dict method to use built-in dict type hinting

benchmarks/serialization.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import json
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-from typing import Any, Dict
+from typing import Any
 
 import cattrs
 import pandas as pd
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 class Serializable:
     """Decorator to add serialization methods to a class."""
 
-    def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
         """Create an object's dictionary representation."""
         return benchmarking_converter.unstructure(self)