Episode 193 · Django Chat
Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
15 Jan 2026 · 58 min
Episode notes
Farhan is a software engineer from Pakistan who added template partials to Django 6.0 as part of a Google Summer of Code project. These days he is pushing the boundaries of what Django can do in a host of exciting new projects, most notably `django-bolt`, a fully typed API framework for Django that is faster than FastAPI on common performance benchmarks.
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by William Vincent and Carlton Gibson · English · Tech & Science
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