Rewriting an API to Use FastAPI: Benchmarks and Lessons Learned

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Last week at work, I rewrote an API to use FastAPI and as much async Python as possible. Then I benchmarked the old and new versions of the API to see which was truly fastest. The summary? FastAPI and async Python made my API much faster . Check the rest of this article for the longer story, including how the rewrite went, bugs I ran into, and benchmarks. About FastAPI FastAPI is an async Python…

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