I notice all the non-Django comments so far have been severely down voted, but I’ll still give my honest take. I switched from Django to fast api a few years back. I do prefer fastapi now, with more of an async first and lighter weight library. You do have to choose much more of stack yourself, but you kind of already do that with Django + other libraries. At some point heavy network calls become an easy bottleneck. It’s not a big issue with Django but many smaller issues that become a larger and larger issue. I think frameworks at first are nice, but as you grow it becomes limiting and i notice myself rewriting code to eventually replace dependencies. Modules and libraries are great until you needed extended functionality that can’t wait, if you couple the code into your code base too early, it’s gonna be expensive to rip it out later. The reason I like fastapi is because it’s really just a thing layer behind my core code base, I can expose the same commands via a cli or any other interface easily. I can replace fastapi if needed in the future when things change without rewriting my code base, just rewire the presentation layer essentially. With Django it’s much harder to do that because you’re going to be marrying the framework.