#100DaysOfWeb in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 21-24: Async Flask APIs with Quart
Lecture: Introducing asynchronous web programming
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Welcome to your next four days and oh my gosh, this is an amazing topic. We're going to talk about bringing asynchronous programming to the web
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to web servers, and these web frameworks like Flask. So why do we care about async programming? Well it lets us take the same amount of hardware
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and the same amount of processing power and CPUs and memory and all of that kind of stuff and massively scale it up.
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You'll see we're going to take a simple API that we're going to create and we're going to first write it in Flask and then we're going to convert it
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to this other framework called Quart which allows us to do async programming effectively in the Flask API.
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When we do that we'll see that the performance should be quite a bit better. Asynchronous programming is fairly advanced
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but it's an interesting topic in that modern Python and by modern I mean Python 3.5 or higher makes writing this type
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of asynchronous programs ridiculously easy. It's almost exactly the same as writing regular programs. The synchronized kind that just happen in order.
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The language will really help us out. So actually programming the async version of our website, no problem.
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You're going to see it's quite easy, actually. However, actually understanding what's happening understanding the power and what's going on
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with all of this asynchronous stuff well that is much harder. So we're going to take this topic in layers. We're going to start out by just talking
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about regular asynchronous programming. Forget the web. What does asynchronous programming look like in Python? Why does it matter?
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Once we understand that we're going to create our website in Flask. Something you've already studied and already have experience with.
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Finally, we're then going to convert to this framework called Quart, apply our asynchronous ideas
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and get better performance for exactly the same hardware. So I hope you're excited, I'm thrilled about this topic
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and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you. So let's get to it.