Graham Lyons
Graham Lyons is a software generalist with a fondness for Python and nearly 20 years of professional experience. He has worked for the BBC and eBay, amongst other companies, and has been working freelance since 2017. Graham is very keen on writing tests before code and all other aspects of the software development lifecycle that make it possible to deploy to production as soon as possible.
Session
This talk is for anyone curious about what it’s like to run FastAPI in production. An asynchronous web framework with automatically generated documentation and dependency injection, FastAPI has made huge gains in popularity and overtook Flask in the 2025 Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey. FastAPI’s features are impressive and picking it up is easy, but beyond that what is it really like to run in production? What joys and pitfalls await those deploying the most popular Python web framework?