#### Operation

"Operation" here refers to one of the HTTP "methods".

One of:

* `POST`
* `GET`
* `PUT`
* `DELETE`

...and the more exotic ones:

* `OPTIONS`
* `HEAD`
* `PATCH`
* `TRACE`

In the HTTP protocol, you can communicate to each path using one (or more) of these "methods".

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I'll tell you a bit more about these **concepts** here, and that would hopefully give you the **intuition** you would need to decide how to deploy your API in very different environments, possibly even in **future** ones that don't exist yet.

By considering these concepts, you will be able to **evaluate and design** the best way to deploy **your own APIs**.

```bash
pip install fastapi
```

...it includes the same code and dependencies as:

```bash
pip install "fastapi-slim[standard]"
```

The standard extra dependencies are the ones mentioned above.

## License

```bash
pip install fastapi
```

...it includes the same code and dependencies as:

```bash
pip install "fastapi-slim[standard]"
```

The standard extra dependencies are the ones mentioned above.

## License

In this case, if you had **multiple containers**, by default, when Prometheus came to **read the metrics**, it would get the ones for **a single container each time** (for the container that handled that particular request), instead of getting the **accumulated metrics** for all the replicated containers.