15 FastAPI Best Practices For Production
I've curated a list of 15 FastAPI best practices and anti-patterns that every FastAPI developer should know to build production-grade web applications.
00:00 Introduction to FastAPI Best Practices
00:22 Avoid Async for Blocking Operations
01:24 Use Async Friendly Code
01:46 Avoid Heavy Computation in Endpoints
02:51 FastAPI Dependencies Rules
03:11 Don't Make Users Wait (Background Tasks)
04:00 Don't Expose Swagger/ReDoc in Production
04:22 Create Custom Pydantic Base Model
05:00 Don't Manually Construct Response Models
05:23 Validate with Pydantic, Not Your Code
06:01 Use Dependencies for DB-Based Validation
06:33 Avoid New DB Connections in Every Endpoint
07:27 Use Lifespan Events for Resource Management
08:02 Don't Hardcode Secrets
09:29 Use Structured Logging
11:24 Best Practices for Deploying FastAPI
You'll learn how to:
✅ Avoid common async mistakes
✅ Optimize database connections
✅ Handle background tasks the right way
✅ Secure your API in production
✅ Improve performance with structured logging
✅ Deploy FastAPI using Uvicorn + Gunicorn + uvloop
...and much more!
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