titiler VS fastapi

There's a lot to like about GDAL+Rasterio, although I've found having all HTTP requests go through GDAL's C API does result in some limitations on concurrency and multithreading. GDAL's configuration being based entirely on env vars also has its downsides: https://github.com/developmentseed/titiler/issues/186

TiMVT and TiFeatures, along with TiTiler for raster services, complete a trio of python-FastAPI services. The current roadmap includes merging TiFeatures & TiMVT, the vector-based services, into a single project to reduce code redundancy.

COGs are great, but from my experience micro services like titiler don't support complex styling logic. Is there a possibility to create a serverless WMS service with complex styling requirements?

Consider something like titiler if you want to serve the pile of geotiffs out to the web.

We were able to host 10gb six band rasters as well as 2cm RGB split into 100m tiles on S3 using COGS, mosaic.json and the TiTiler project which is powered by AWS lambda functions

That’s when I found FastAPI.

FastAPI & Uvicorn

Discussion at FastAPI GitHub: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/2696

An API application framework (such as FastAPI)

It’s been my experience that async Python frameworks tend to turn IO bound problems into CPU bound problems with a high enough request rate, because due to their nature they act as unbounded queues.

This ends up made worse if you’re using sync routes.

If you’re constrained on a resource such as a database connection pool, your framework will continue to pull http requests off the wire that a sane client will cancel and retry due to timeouts because it takes too long to get a connection out of the pool. Since there isn’t a straightforward way to cancel the execution of a route handler in every Python http framework I’ve seen exhibit this problem, the problem quickly snowballs.

This is an issue with fastapi, too- https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/5759

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