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 Description

APIs 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 Contents

1. Introduction to FastAPI and RESTful APIs

2. Setting Up the Development Environment

3. Installing FastAPI

4. Core Features of FastAPI

5. Dependency Injection

6. Request and Response Models with Pydantic

7. Authentication and Authorization

8. File Uploading

9. Connecting to Databases

10. Testing and Debugging

11. Deployment and Scalability

12. Managing Application Configuration

13. Building Practical Projects

14. Future of FastAPI

15. Appendices

Index