Sebastián Ramírez

Sebastián Ramírez, known as Tiangolo, is the creator of FastAPI and currently leads FastAPI Labs. He dives into his journey launching FastAPI Cloud and shares humorous tales from a recent hackathon. Sebastián discusses the transformative role of Pydantic in streamlining APIs and reflects on FastAPI's impressive growth and adoption, even by NASA. He addresses challenges in software design and the balance of open-source sustainability, emphasizing a user-centric philosophy that enhances the developer experience.

Join experts from the Python web framework universe: Carlton Gibson (Django core contributor), Sebastián Ramírez (creator of FastAPI), David Lord (lead maintainer of Flask), Janek Nouvertné, and Cody Fincher (Litestar maintainers). They dive into deploying applications in production, discussing everything from optimal database choices, like when to use SQLite versus Postgres, to deployment patterns with Kubernetes and Docker. Expect insights on avoiding blocking in async code, the performance boosts of upgrading Python, and deploying efficiently with FastAPI Cloud.

Savannah Ostrowski, a Python Steering Council member who works on CPython internals and releases, and Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI and founder of FastAPI Cloud, talk about simplifying deployment. They discuss one-command deploys, autoscaling and scale-to-zero, and designing a Pythonic cloud with tooling that strengthens the open-source project.