As part of that, I needed to investigate, test and use many alternatives.

The history of **FastAPI** is in great part the history of its predecessors.

As said in the section [Alternatives](alternatives.md){.internal-link target=_blank}:

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**FastAPI** wouldn't exist if not for the previous work of others.

Without a data validation system, you would have to do all the checks by hand, in code.

These features are what Marshmallow was built to provide. It is a great library, and I have used it a lot before.

# External Links and Articles

**FastAPI** has a great community constantly growing.

There are many posts, articles, tools, and projects, related to **FastAPI**.

Here's an incomplete list of some of them.

!!! tip

=================

Thank you so much for wanting to contribute to Guava! Here are a few important
things you should know about contributing:

1.  API changes require discussion, use cases, etc. Code comes later.
2.  Pull requests are great for small fixes for bugs, documentation, etc.
3.  Pull requests are not merged directly into the master branch.
4.  Code contributions require signing a Google CLA.

API changes
-----------

## 1. Prerequisites

* Familiarity with [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/overview/).

Up to now, you have been using common data types, like:

* `int`
* `float`
* `str`
* `bool`

But you can also use more complex data types.

And you will still have the same features as seen up to now:

* Great editor support.
* Data conversion from incoming requests.
* Data conversion for response data.
* Data validation.
* Automatic annotation and documentation.

## Other data types

@Tag("Slowish")
class RelayTest {
  @TempDir
  var tempDir: File? = null
  private val executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(threadFactory("RelayTest"))
  private val metadata: ByteString = "great metadata!".encodeUtf8()
  private lateinit var file: File

  @BeforeEach
  fun setUp() {
    file = File(tempDir, "test")
  }

  @AfterEach
  fun tearDown() {
    executor.shutdown()
  }

/**
 * Returns true if there is an element in this array that is also in [other]. This method terminates
 * if any intersection is found. The sizes of both arguments are assumed to be so small, and the
 * likelihood of an intersection so great, that it is not worth the CPU cost of sorting or the
 * memory cost of hashing.
 */
internal fun Array<String>.hasIntersection(
  other: Array<String>?,
  comparator: Comparator<in String>,
): Boolean {

<img src="/img/tutorial/security/image02.png">

!!! note
    It doesn't matter what you type in the form, it won't work yet. But we'll get there.

This is of course not the frontend for the final users, but it's a great automatic tool to document interactively all your API.

It can be used by the frontend team (that can also be yourself).

It can be used by third party applications and systems.

_2020-07-11_

 *  New: Change `HeldCertificate.Builder` to use its own ASN.1 certificate encoder. This is part
    of our effort to remove the okhttp-tls module's dependency on Bouncy Castle. We think Bouncy
    Castle is great! But it's a large dependency (6.5 MiB) and its security provider feature
    impacts VM-wide behavior.

 *  New: Reduce contention for applications that make a very high number of concurrent requests.