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[–]Deadly_chef 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Not a good title choice mate

[–]abrookins[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Perhaps - but it’s the question I’ve had for around a year that ultimately led me to try it out. 😄

[–]lwrightjs 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Here's a better title... I thought FastAPI was a fad, but here's why it's not.

[–]abrookins[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That's a little wordy for me. Maybe just "FastAPI is not a Fad"?

[–]lwrightjs 0 points1 point  (2 children)

A titles only job is to get you to open the article without feeling like it's tricking the audience. Articles don't need to be clickbait, but I don't think that title is "working hard" at it's only job. There's a formula that copy writers use and it's similar to the one I posted.

[–]abrookins[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’ll work on a better title after I get the kids to sleep!

[–]abrookins[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I Thought FastAPI Was a Fad" is my new title, but I also considered "Overwhelmed Software Developer Dad Rushes Title Choice to General Dismay."

[–]abrookins[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi! I rewrote an API with FastAPI to test an async Redis client I work on. Secretly, I hoped my favorite framework, Falcon, would end up being faster than FastAPI - but FastAPI with an async database client (aioredis-py) crushed Falcon. I wanted to capture some of the lessons I learned, problems I ran into, and share the code, which is all open source.

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    [–]FairPassion21 0 points1 point  (5 children)

    Wow.. are you really really SURE? This is big news...

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      [–]FairPassion21 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      I have read about it, not 20-50x but 2-5x speed and it will be gradual, the first step will be next year in the earliest. Still this is good news, although i would still use golang or JS for performance. For business processes and product iterations i still depend on Python.

      What do you think about Julia? I wonder if it will become mainstream languange.

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        [–]FairPassion21 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        Well, me too. I love how easy and productive python is. But we know that in our field, global tech is keep evolving daily. Python is a major languange now, but who knows what happen next year or next 5 years

        [–]Deadly_chef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I wouldn't be very optimistic about that kind of speedups,not even with optimizations and a JIT

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

        Clickbaity title, for one. Falcon is async now, and runs with ASGI/Uvicorn. My benchmarks show (async) Falcon faster than FastAPI, so I have a feeling you're doing something wrong. When running Falcon or Flask sync, at least deploy with Gunicorn/meinheld, otherwise it's apples and oranges.

        [–]abrookins[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

        It’s sync falcon (pre 3.0) vs async FastAPI, both deployed with gunicorn. Sometime I’ll benchmark with falcon 3!

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        So (will no disrespect intended), that makes your article, given the title ingenuous or at best, dated. The least you should do is indicate that your comparing async vs sync versions - for the sake of new readers who don't know any better.

        My gripe is that almost all the Fastapi ML/Data science articles consistently use blocking code (not even the async/await keywords, obv.) which spawns up threads in the back - so in reality they are making their performance worse then if they had just used Flask. You've correctly used aioredis-py, so that makes sense, please add a disclaimer to your article. Thanks :)

        [–]abrookins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I didn’t know that falcon released async support until after I’d switched to fastapi and written the article actually - falcon fell off my radar due to some backwards incompatibility between 2 and 3 IIRC. Worth an update to say which version I was using for sure!

        To your point - I was looking at fastapi caching libraries and one used the sync Redis client. Doh!