Django and FastAPI: Introduction
Main differences between Django and FastAPI from a data engineering perspective
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In 2016 I’ve made a switch from building data warehouse pipelines, into building back-end systems in Python. I’ve started with Django and in 2021 I’ve implemented for the first time a FastAPI microservice. Working in parallel with two different frameworks might be a challenge at times, hence this series of articles shedding some light on the main differences between the two, with a focus on data manipulation.
Django
Django is an open source web development framework (can be used for both front-end and back-end), released in 2005 ( Wikipedia). You can read in detail about it on the official page:
FastAPI
FastAPI is an open source web framework, used for back-end development, specifically developing APIs. It was first released in 2018. You can read in detail about it on the official page:
