FastUI VS factory_boy

In the dynamic world of web development, Python has emerged as a dominant force, especially in backend development – the primary focus of this blog post. Although it's worth mentioning that there are ongoing efforts to use Python for the frontend as well, like Reflex (previously known as Pynecone, they presumably had to change their name because of Pinecone vector database), which even garnered support from Y Combinator. Samuel Colvin (creator of Pydantic) is also working on FastUI (he literally just released the first version in December 2023).

Factory Boy doesn't currently support asynchronous operations, but there is an async-factory-boy extension with enough async support for most use cases. There is also an open pull request in Factory Boy with recent updates (July 2023) that will hopefully be merged soon.

You can use it with Faker and factory_boy (for ORM integration).

When releasing a new application (or feature) I've always loaded each table in my development environments database with a few million rows. Tools like Python's Factory Boy [1] or Ruby's Factory Bot [2] make this trivial.

After the data is loaded up, start navigating through the application and it will become evident where improvements need to be made. Tools like Django Debug Toolbar [3] help expose where the bad ORM calls are or also by tailing Postgres log files.

[1] https://github.com/FactoryBoy/factory_boy