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Perplexity and FastAPI

1 points by slroger ↗ HN
Why does Perplexity use FastAPI over say Django? Clearly they are doing well and could have done well with either but I'm curious why they went with FastAPI over a more tried and tested framework like Django. The only proof I've found they use FastAPI on the backend are the job postings.(https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/perplexityai/jobs/4601047007)

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minimaxir
Django is batteries included. Sometimes you don't need the batteries.
slroger
Thank you, makes sense. Think I’ll try checking it out