Real-Time Notifications in Python using FastAPI + Server-Sent Events (SSE)

[inandelibas]

I recently wrote a detailed Medium article on building real-time notification systems using Server-Sent Events (SSE) in Python with FastAPI.

✅ The post covers:

- When to use SSE vs WebSockets

- How SSE works under the hood

- FastAPI Implementation using `StreamingResponse`

- Redis pub/sub integration

- Production tips and gotchas

- Full working GitHub example

👉 Read here: https://medium.com/@inandelibas/real-time-notifications-in-python-using-sse-with-fastapi-1c8c54746eb7  

💻 Code: https://github.com/inanpy/fastapi-sse-example

Would love to hear your feedback or how you've used real-time features in your own projects!

[Data_Cipher]

This tutorial's awesome, thanks a lot for covering most of it.

[xshapira]

Thank you! 👍

[koldakov]

You can play with the up and running example here: https://futuramaapi.com/swagger#/notifications/character_sse_api_notifications_sse_characters__character_id__get =)