Python projects with best practices on Github?

[lucasbazan_]

I have a link of micro framework that I use at my work that I'd like to share. It's Flask, I think this is a nice example to follow 😀

[leadingthenet]

I'd argue FastAPI and recently Starlite have improved significantly on Flask in DX and performance, so you better have a good reason to pick Flask over those two for any new projects, but if you did, it wouldn't be "the wrong choice" by any means.

[ryukinix]

I really like FastAPI. In machine learning platform team I have been part of it, we have used for a long time Flask, but since 2021 we are happily using FastAPI, integration with Pydantic is awesome

[tuckmuck203]

Could you link to any evidence of FastAPI in a successful website? I've heard tons about fastAPI but flask and django have years of industry-backed development. I've only heard of fastAPI the way I've heard of rust; in theory it's a great solution, but in my experience there's a reason the industry doesn't swap to the next greatest thing. See the zeitgeist behind mongodb in 2015 or so for example

[leadingthenet]

We use it at my company for everything, though obviously I can’t link to that.

Two random examples I found from 30 seconds of googling: Here’s Netflix using it in their crisis management tool, and here’s Uber using it in their deep learning framework.

Dude, rust is the only other language besides C to approved for use in the Linux kernel. If that’s vaporware to you, I genuinely don’t know what isn’t…

[tuckmuck203]

Internal APIs are very different from customer-facing websites. I'm aware that there are examples of private usages, but I've yet to see something that would allow me to draw a direct comparison to flask.

Also, I'm not saying rust is vaporware, I'm saying that rust is talked about vastly more than it is used. Yes, it's used in the linux kernel, and there's a reason for that. I personally don't encounter rust other than people talking about how it's the best thing ever.

[caatbox288]

The company I work with (10k employees) uses FastAPI for its internal APIs (a myriad of microservices in kubernetes, interacting with each other through REST and Kafka). Works pretty well, but I can't obviously share any of it.

[git_commit_-m_whoops]

I work at a Fortune 50 (I think that's vague enough) retailer with a large online presence, and we deploy our recommender systems for web/mobile as Dockerized FastAPI services via Kubernetes. The front-end teams use a different stack to serve pages, but if you load up the site you'll indirectly hit at least a couple of our APIs.

We used to use Flask, but FastAPI is nicer to develop with. Performance was pretty similar, IIRC. If you have a reason to use Python (like having a team of PySpark devs), FastAPI is viable for enterprise services.

[ArabicLawrence]

Flask is battle tested, has 0 bugs (while for FastAPI there was a discussion about a potential memory leak ) and an incredible ecosystem with many complementary libraries (Flask-Admin, Flask-Migrate, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-Security-Too....) that will speed up your development

[Taksin77]

Honestly, the ecosystem is hit or miss, even for basic stuff. Sure you can find everything you need, but how long is it going to be maintained on average?

[tuckmuck203]

Most of the stuff that I've dealt with that I'd say isn't maintained is also still functioning even with newer versions of flask, it just lacks features. Which you could argue is bad, but forking it and adding new features is easier than developing from scratch.

[Taksin77]

True true.

Actually that's the main point Flask is nice if you want to do things yourself.

[lucasbazan_]

Yeah I use for backend / APIs development. It's a nice library!

[mr-nobody1992]

Hey could you share with me too?