!!! tip
        By adding the `standard`, Uvicorn will install and use some recommended extra dependencies.

        That including `uvloop`, the high-performance drop-in replacement for `asyncio`, that provides the big concurrency performance boost.

        When you install FastAPI with something like `pip install fastapi` you already get `uvicorn[standard]` as well.

=== "Hypercorn"

But in many cases, you will want to run several worker processes at the same time.

### Multiple Processes - Workers

If you have more clients than what a single process can handle (for example if the virtual machine is not too big) and you have **multiple cores** in the server's CPU, then you could have **multiple processes** running with the same application at the same time, and distribute all the requests among them.