Building High-Performance Web APIs with FastAPI

Master FastAPI to Build Secure, High-performance Web APIs with Modern Python- from Fundamentals to Full-scale Applications.Book DescriptionAPIs are the backbone of today's interconnected digital world, powering everything from mobile apps to enterprise systems. Building them to be fast, scalable, and secure is critical for modern software success. Building High-Performance Web APIs with FastAPI shows you how to achieve exactly that-using Python's cutting-edge FastAPI framework.Starting with RESTful API fundamentals and FastAPI's core principles, you will set up your development environment, install the framework, and explore its key features. You will progress through designing and validating data models with Pydantic, implementing authentication and authorization, handling file uploads, and integrating relational databases like SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.From there, you will master testing and debugging techniques, learn deployment strategies with Docker and Kubernetes, and scale your APIs with best practices for performance and security. Real-world projects and step-by-step examples make each concept easy to grasp and apply.Hence, whether you are a developer, architect, or engineer, Building High-Performance Web APIs with FastAPI is your roadmap to mastering high-performance API development-start building the APIs your users deserve.Table of Contents1. Introduction to FastAPI and RESTful APIs2. Setting Up the Development Environment3. Installing FastAPI4. Core Features of FastAPI5. Dependency Injection6. Request and Response Models with Pydantic7. Authentication and Authorization8. File Uploading9. Connecting to Databases10. Testing and Debugging11. Deployment and Scalability12. Managing Application Configuration13. Building Practical Projects14. Future of FastAPI15. AppendicesIndex