flama VS falcon

There has been a considerable effort in the last few years to try and standardise the way in which these type of APIs are implemented via different frameworks. However, over the last few years, a new type of functionality has become more and more popular: machine learning (ML) models; and the existing frameworks for building APIs are not well suited for this type of functionality. In this series of posts, we will learn how to build APIs using a Framework for the development of Lightweight Applications and Machine-learning Automation, also known as Flama.

*some options that were mentioned in the thread I linked to include - Starlite (made to bypass perceived shortcomings of FastAPI) - Flama (Starlette w/ Marshmellow instead of Pydantic) - APIFlask (Flask w/ Pydantic) - Django Ninja - Quart-Schema

Flama (Starlette, Marshmallow instead of Pydantic)

Falcon FastAPI Sanic Starlite (disclosure: I do work here)

Sanic is very very popular with 16.6k stars, 1.5k forks, opencollective sponsors and a very active github. Falcon is more popular than japronto with 8.9k stars, 898 forks, opencollective sponsors and a very active github too. Despite Japronto been keeped as first place by TechEmPower, Falcon is a way better solution in general with performance similar to fastify an very fast node.js framework that hits 575k requests per second in this benchmark.

I prefer Falcon for kicking up an API.

Falcon

And here's a project that's mostly Python, and optionally uses Cython https://github.com/falconry/falcon

To help with the above two cases I would consider using a microframework, and the Python community provides many solutions. In my professional career I’ve had the opportunity to work with three very good alternatives to Django: Flask, Falcon, and Fast API. Flask is designed to be easy to use and extend. It follows the principles of minimalism and gives more control over the app. Choosing it, developers can use multiple types of databases, which is not easy to do in Django. We can also plug in our favorite ORM and use it without any risk of unpredictable app behavior. In contrast to Django, it’s easy to integrate NoSQL databases with Flask.

This may not be exactly what you asked for but I found contributing to open source projects really exposed me to different approaches I never would have considered and may not have fully grasped had I not had to actually dive into the code to solve an issue. Falcon is a great place to start and the guys are super friendly there.

https://falcon.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/