ClePy & ClePyLadies Collab: January Meetup

We will be hosted at Happy Dog, in the Underdog (basement). This will be a collaboration with the Cleveland PyLadies. If the guest list is full for this event, check out the corresponding event on the PyLadies page for additional availability.

Meetup Agenda
6:00-6:30pm Social and Setup, Announcements.
6:30-7:30pm Presentations (see below)
7:30-8:00pm Social and Clean-up

Presentation
FastAPI: Building High-Performance APIs with Modern Python
by Anurag Saxena
FastAPI has fundamentally changed how we build web services in Python by moving type hints from optional documentation to the core of the application logic. By leveraging Pydantic for data validation and Starlette for high-performance networking, it provides a framework that is both highly performant and developer-friendly.
In this session, we will look at how to build production-ready APIs using modern Python patterns. We’ll dive into the mechanics of the framework and explore:

• Type-Driven Development: How FastAPI uses Python type hints as the single source of truth for validation, serialization, and documentation.
• Deep Integration with Pydantic: Exploring Pydantic’s role in managing complex data structures and ensuring data integrity at the API boundary.
• The OpenAPI Ecosystem: A look at how automatic schema generation simplifies client integration and testing.
• Asynchronous Patterns: Practical use cases for `async` and `await` in web services.
• Dependency Injection: Utilizing FastAPI’s built-in system to manage resources like database sessions and authentication logic.

We’ll move past the basic "Hello World" to see how these tools work together to create maintainable, self-documenting codebases.

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