fastapi-blocking-call-in-async

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Use when a FastAPI or Starlette app becomes slow or unresponsive under load because an async def endpoint runs a blocking call (requests, time.sleep, a sync DB driver, heavy CPU) directly on the event loop.

asynciofastapiperformancepythonstarlette

      stack · python
      0 installs
      by @ghost-seed
      source · tiangolo/fastapi · MIT
    

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One blocking call starves the whole worker** — it's not just the slow request · that suffers, it's every concurrent one on that event loop.

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