FastAPI Reviews

1. Kurslog team

   · Working at Kurslog · 4 months ago

   When our backend team needs to build services for data parsing, aggregators, or high-load APIs, FastAPI is our absolute go-to choice. It completely lives up to its name-development speed is outstanding.

   The combination of Pydantic for data validation and built-in async support keeps our shared codebase clean, strictly typed, and reliable. But the biggest highlight for our cross-functional team is the automatic generation of interactive OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation. Our frontend and mobile developers no longer have to wait for backend engineers to manually update API docs; everything stays perfectly in sync automatically. It has drastically improved our team's communication and delivery speed.

   🏁 Competitors: Django, Flask, ExpressJS, Nest.js, Spring Boot

   👍 Pros:    Blazing fast performance (on par with nodejs and go)|Native asynchronous support out of the box|Automatic, interactive documentation generation (swagger/redoc)|Strict typing and data validation with pydantic

   👎 Cons:    Smaller plug-and-play ecosystem compared to older frameworks like django|Requires our architects to design the project structure and directory layout from scratch

Postgres.js Reviews

FastAPI mentions (311)

• Shipping Sovereign SDK: Cryptographic Forensic Receipts and the End of the AI "Prose Tax"

  The Sovereign SDK is a Python-native framework designed to minimize prose overhead while generating ironclad, cryptographic execution receipts for AI agents, complete with drop-in FastAPI/Starlette ASGI middleware. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• 5-Minute AI Jobs and Closed Tabs — Why We Built Replay-Then-Tail SSE

  We had a feature in production where a single user request could run for five-plus minutes — fetch documents, chunk them, hit an LLM per chunk, synthesize a final answer. We did the obvious thing first: a FastAPI handler that ran the pipeline and streamed progress back to the browser over Server-Sent Events. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• FastAPI With LangChain and MongoDB

  FastAPI is a Python framework for building APIs quickly, efficiently, and with very little code. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• I Built A " CrowdSense AI " : A Scalable, Context-Aware Platform for Smart Stadiums

  Backend: Python-based FastAPI for its asynchronous I/O capabilities and rapid JSON serialization. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Async PyMongo in FastAPI

  FastAPI is a high-performance web framework that is production-ready and designed for building APIs in python, with roots embedded in asynchronous programming. It embraces Python’s asyncio model as its core principle rather than treating it as optional. This design choice gives FastAPI leverage for I/O bound workloads such as db access, external API calls and real-time data streaming. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

Postgres.js mentions (24)

• Why Node.js needs a virtual file system

  Bun provides native MySQL, SQlite, and Postgres drivers. I'm not saying Node should support every db in existence but the ones I listed are critical infrastructure at this point. When using Postgres in Node you either rely on the old pg which pulls 13 dependencies[1] or postgres[2] which is much better and has zero deps but mostly depends on a single guy. [1] https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=pg [2]... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

  Is there a way to make this work with https://github.com/porsager/postgres ? It's very close to raw SQL but with safe substitutions. I use it with Zod, but it would be great to have the types derived automatically. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

  I really want to use pipelining for our "em.flush" of sending all INSERTs & UPDATEs to the db as part of a transaction, b/c my initial prototyping showed a 3-6x increase: https://joist-orm.io/blog/initial-pipelining-benchmark/ If you're not in a transaction, afaiu pipelining is not as applicable/useful b/c any SQL statement failing in the pipeline fails all other queries after it, and imo it would suck for... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Node.js can now execute TypeScript files

  > What are you missing? Everything else needed to make a backend app. At the very least, Node should provide fundamental pieces like database drivers. Currently the best PG driver[1] depends on a single guy. Bun already provides its own PG driver [2] and Jarred has written they will keep investing into more built-in APIs. [1] https://github.com/porsager/postgres [2] https://bun.com/docs/api/sql. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Neon Is Generally Available: Serverless Postgres

  I want to use this as a chance to bring attention to a GitHub issue that I think would help reduce friction for Neon: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4989. Having run a local dev environment connected to Neon and tests connected to Neon got in our way of adoption. We'd prefer to develop and run tests against a regular Postgres localhost database. To the PMs of Neon, put yourself in the shoes of a new... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago