#533: Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators

Today on Talk Python, the creators behind FastAPI, Flask, Django, Quart, and Litestar get practical about running apps based on their framework in production. Deployment patterns, async gotchas, servers, scaling, and the stuff you only learn at 2 a.m. when the pager goes off. For Django, we have Carlton Gibson and Jeff Triplet. For Flask, we have David Lord and Phil Jones, and on team Litestar we have Janek Nouvertné and Cody Fincher, and finally Sebastián Ramírez from FastAPI is here. Let’s jump in. Episode sponsors Talk Python Courses Python in Production Links from the show Guests David Lord Janek Nouvertné Cody Fincher Philip Jones Jeff Triplett Carlton Gibson Carlton Gibson - Django : github.com Sebastian Ramirez - FastAPI : github.com David Lord - Flask : davidism.com Phil Jones - Flask and Quartz(async) : pgjones.dev Yanik Nouvertne - LiteStar : github.com Cody Fincher - LiteStar : github.com Jeff Triplett - Django : jefftriplett.com Django : Flask : flask.palletsprojects.com Quart : quart.palletsprojects.com Litestar : litestar.dev FastAPI : fastapi.tiangolo.com Coolify : coolify.io ASGI : asgi.readthedocs.io WSGI (PEP 3333) : peps.python.org Granian : github.com Hypercorn : github.com uvicorn : uvicorn.dev Gunicorn : gunicorn.org Hypercorn : hypercorn.readthedocs.io Daphne : github.com Nginx : nginx.org Docker : Kubernetes : kubernetes.io PostgreSQL : SQLite : Celery : docs.celeryq.dev SQLAlchemy : Django REST framework : Jinja : jinja.palletsprojects.com Click : click.palletsprojects.com HTMX : htmx.org Server-Sent Events (SSE) : developer.mozilla.org WebSockets (RFC 6455) : HTTP/2 (RFC 9113) : HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) : uv : docs.astral.sh Amazon Web Services (AWS) : aws.amazon.com Microsoft Azure : azure.microsoft.com Google Cloud Run : cloud.google.com Amazon ECS : aws.amazon.com AlloyDB for PostgreSQL : cloud.google.com Fly.io : fly.io Render : render.com Cloudflare : Fastly : Watch this episode on YouTube : youtube.com Episode deep-dive : talkpython.fm/533 Episode transcripts : talkpython.fm Theme Song: Developer Rap 🥁 Served in a Flask 🎸 : talkpython.fm/flasksong ---== Don't be a stranger ==--- YouTube : youtube.com/@talkpython Bluesky : @talkpython.fm Mastodon : @talkpython@fosstodon.org X.com : @talkpython Michael on Bluesky : @mkennedy.codes Michael on Mastodon : @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Michael on X.com : @mkennedy

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#533: Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators is an episode from Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers by Michael Kennedy.

This episode is 61:58 long.

This episode was published on Jan 5, 2026.

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