And it's possible that for your use case, the solution is in one of them.

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## Read the Tutorial first { #read-the-tutorial-first }

You could still use most of the features in **FastAPI** with the knowledge from the main [Tutorial - User Guide](../tutorial/index.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Development { #development }

By the time I started creating **FastAPI** itself, most of the pieces were already in place, the design was defined, the requirements and tools were ready, and the knowledge about the standards and specifications was clear and fresh.

## Future { #future }

By this point, it's already clear that **FastAPI** with its ideas is being useful for many people.

But, you already know how to easily create automatic documentation for an API with **FastAPI**.

So we are going to use that same knowledge to document how the *external API* should look like... by creating the *path operation(s)* that the external API should implement (the ones your API will call).

/// tip

import jcifs.RuntimeCIFSException;
import jcifs.smb.RequestParam;

/**
 * This class simplifies communication for protocols that support
 * multiplexing requests. It encapsulates a stream and some protocol
 * knowledge (provided by a concrete subclass) so that connecting,
 * disconnecting, sending, and receiving can be syncronized
 * properly. Apparatus is provided to send and receive requests
 * concurrently.
 */

/**

That way, in many cases you can learn about containers and Docker and reuse that knowledge with many different tools and components.

## Very Technical Details { #very-technical-details }

/// warning

You can probably skip this.

These are very technical details of how **FastAPI** works underneath.

If you have quite some technical knowledge (coroutines, threads, blocking, etc.) and are curious about how FastAPI handles `async def` vs normal `def`, go ahead.

///

### Path operation functions { #path-operation-functions }