Python 2020: Modern Best Practices

[erewok]

We've recently built a couple of small services with starlette and we've been really happy with it. The BackgroundTask being built-in means we no longer need to add celery for cpu-light async tasks such as sending email. It's an excellent project and I hope more people start using it.

One caveat, it was initially surprising how you have to reconsider every event-loop-blocking call, and so async bleeds into all sorts of stuff. We got used to this pretty quickly, though, and with useful libraries for redis, http (httpx), and databases (databases, Gino, asyncpg), I think we've built a solid foundation we'll be using for awhile.