Re:Slashdot Effect
by andrewmcwatters on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:43PM
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One of the most popular API frameworks is called “FastAPI” but in any meaningful benchmark it’s one of the slowest commercially used pieces of web software the industry has adopted.
There is no hope for large segments of the industry. We actively choose to make bad decisions all the time, and then people rationalize them.
Re:Slashdot Effect
by georgeburdell on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:14PM
(#46060596)
FastAPI is the best combination of an easy and a flexible Python library for web servers, from my experience. If I need performance, I will rewrite it in Go.
Re:Slashdot Effect
by amypetrik8 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @09:19AM
(#46069500)
the slowest API i ever seen is FastAPI
Fast to develop, fast to run under modest to reasonable requirements. Few things need to scale further.
They were limited by tools and resources. Now you'll just see some async "API endpoint error -32768 timeout" and 8,000 spinning pinwheels on the page instead of it simply hanging. Because now you need to allocate 650MB RAM so you can output Hello World in some buggy "stack" with "memory safety".
The smart ones were using Java 25 years ago and what needed some 80lb Solaris box could run off a mobile phone now.