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FastAPI for AI Backend Development

Module 01

What FastAPI Is and When an API Is the Right Shape

By the end of this module you can say what FastAPI gives you that a script does not, and recognise the problems where an API is the wrong shape and a scheduled job would do.

Units

  1. Unit 01.00: What an API is for, and when it is the wrong shape
  2. Unit 01.01: The contract is the product
  3. Unit 01.02: Where FastAPI's speed actually comes from
  4. Unit 01.03: Sync and async, and the choice you are making
  5. Unit 01.04: Deciding the smallest API that does the job

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