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#fastapi

Christopher shares an article titled "The Uselessness of 'Fast' and 'Slow' in Programming." It digs into how the different aspects of software performance span a wide range of orders of magnitude, and how developers can obsess over irrelevant performance details, often losing more time working in suboptimal environments than building what they need with tools they already know. We also discuss an article about why uv is fast, which explains how most of its speed comes from engineering decisions rather than just being written in Rust.

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Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. We discuss a recent Real Python step-by-step tutorial about programming a FastAPI example application. You practice installing FastAPI, building your first endpoints, adding path and query parameters, and validating endpoints using Pydantic. Christopher covers updates to his Real Python video course about concurrency in Python.

Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between "quick and limited" or "powerful and painful." What if you could write modern, component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full control? NiceGUI, pronounced "Nice Guy" sits on FastAPI with a Vue/Quasar front end, gives you real components, live updates over websockets, and it's running in production at Zauberzeug, a German robotic company. On this episode, I'm talking with NiceGUI's creators, Rodja Trappe and Falko Schindler, about how it works, where it shines,

Asyncpg is the connector for PostgreSQL and asyncio-flavored Python. Here's how to use it without other libraries on FastAPI and Air projects. Recently I've been on a few projects using PostgreSQL where SQLAlchemy and SQLModel felt like overkill. Instead of using those libraries I leaned on writing SQL queries and running those directly in [asyncpg](https://pypi.org/project/asyncpg/) instead of using an ORM powered by asyncpg. Here's how I got it to work

Using Streamlit allowed me to build a fast and efficient frontend without leaving the comfort of Python, leveraging its data-centric features effectively.