Porter Reviews

FastAPI Reviews

1. Kurslog team

   · Working at Kurslog · 5 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

Porter mentions (4)

• Porter v1.0.0 Is Here

  Https://getporter.org/ https://getporter.dev/ One of you is going to have to rename yourselves... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• free-for.dev

  Porter - a fully-managed PaaS that lets teams automate DevOps. The free basic tier for porter cloud offers management of 1 cluster with up to 10 vCPU and 20 GB memory. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• New search engine made with Python that's anonymous and has no ads or tracking. It tries to fight spam, and gives you control of how you view search results. You can search and read content anonymously with a proxied reader view. The alpha is live and free for anyone to use at lazyweb.ai

  There are some YC startups (AtomizedHq.com and getporter.dev) that are doing really interesting things with cross-cloud K8S deployments (more like heroku). These are all different bits of the serverless microservices scaling puzzle. We are a long way off but trying to think long term, even as a 2 person alpha prototype :). Source: about 5 years ago

• I made a search webapp and need help improving programming search results. It's anonymous and free of ads and tracking, and searches aren't logged, so we need feedback to improve results. It that lets you search anonymously without ads or tracking, and let's you choose how you view results.

  But then I saw a YC startup called Porter (https://getporter.dev) that made getting the cluster set up and deploying the apps from Heroku on AWS EKS a piece of cake. It's really great. There is another YC startup called Atomized (https://atomizedhq.com) that I've been looking at that's also really great. They are both worth checking out, and the teams from both are super-responsive. Source: about 5 years ago

FastAPI mentions (312)

• I Built My First Machine Learning API — Here's Everything I Learned

  I used FastAPI, a Python framework built specifically for creating APIs quickly, with automatic validation and interactive documentation baked in. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago

• 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 / 3 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 / 4 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 / 5 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 / 5 months ago