Routes are declared in a single place, using functions declared in other places (instead of using decorators that can be placed right on top of the function that handles the endpoint). This is closer to how Django does it than to how Flask (and Starlette) does it. It separates in the code things that are relatively tightly coupled.

!!! check "Inspired **FastAPI** to"

    @Override
    public int compare(@CheckForNull Object left, @CheckForNull Object right) {
      if (left == right) {
        return 0;
      } else if (left == null) {
        return -1;
      } else if (right == null) {
        return 1;
      }
      int leftCode = identityHashCode(left);
      int rightCode = identityHashCode(right);
      if (leftCode != rightCode) {
        return leftCode < rightCode ? -1 : 1;

            "five", 5,
            "six", 6,
            "seven", 7,
            "eight", 8),
        "one",
        1,
        "two",
        2,
        "three",
        3,
        "four",
        4,
        "five",
        5,
        "six",
        6,
        "seven",
        7,
        "eight",
        8);
    assertMapEquals(
        ImmutableMap.of(
            "one", 1,

absl-py==2.1.0 \
    --hash=sha256:526a04eadab8b4ee719ce68f204172ead1027549089702d99b9059f129ff1308 \
    --hash=sha256:7820790efbb316739cde8b4e19357243fc3608a152024288513dd968d7d959ff
    # via
    #   keras-nightly
    #   tb-nightly
astor==0.7.1 \
    --hash=sha256:95c30d87a6c2cf89aa628b87398466840f0ad8652f88eb173125a6df8533fb8d \
    --hash=sha256:fb503b9e2fdd05609fbf557b916b4a7824171203701660f0c55bbf5a7a68713e
    # via -r requirements.in

absl-py==2.1.0 \
    --hash=sha256:526a04eadab8b4ee719ce68f204172ead1027549089702d99b9059f129ff1308 \
    --hash=sha256:7820790efbb316739cde8b4e19357243fc3608a152024288513dd968d7d959ff
    # via
    #   keras-nightly
    #   tb-nightly
astor==0.7.1 \
    --hash=sha256:95c30d87a6c2cf89aa628b87398466840f0ad8652f88eb173125a6df8533fb8d \
    --hash=sha256:fb503b9e2fdd05609fbf557b916b4a7824171203701660f0c55bbf5a7a68713e
    # via -r requirements.in

absl-py==2.1.0 \
    --hash=sha256:526a04eadab8b4ee719ce68f204172ead1027549089702d99b9059f129ff1308 \
    --hash=sha256:7820790efbb316739cde8b4e19357243fc3608a152024288513dd968d7d959ff
    # via
    #   keras-nightly
    #   tb-nightly
astor==0.7.1 \
    --hash=sha256:95c30d87a6c2cf89aa628b87398466840f0ad8652f88eb173125a6df8533fb8d \
    --hash=sha256:fb503b9e2fdd05609fbf557b916b4a7824171203701660f0c55bbf5a7a68713e
    # via -r requirements.in

And it shows their true commitment to FastAPI and its **community** (you), as they not only want to provide you a **good service** but also want to make sure you have a **good and healthy framework**, FastAPI. 🙇

For example, you might want to try <a href="https://speakeasyapi.dev/?utm_source=fastapi+repo&utm_medium=github+sponsorship" class="external-link" target="_blank">Speakeasy</a>.

### Single Container

If you have a simple setup, with a **single container** that then starts multiple **worker processes** (or also just one process), then you could run those previous steps in the same container, right before starting the process with the app. The official Docker image supports this internally.

absl-py==2.1.0 \
    --hash=sha256:526a04eadab8b4ee719ce68f204172ead1027549089702d99b9059f129ff1308 \
    --hash=sha256:7820790efbb316739cde8b4e19357243fc3608a152024288513dd968d7d959ff
    # via
    #   keras-nightly
    #   tb-nightly
astor==0.7.1 \
    --hash=sha256:95c30d87a6c2cf89aa628b87398466840f0ad8652f88eb173125a6df8533fb8d \
    --hash=sha256:fb503b9e2fdd05609fbf557b916b4a7824171203701660f0c55bbf5a7a68713e
    # via -r requirements.in

<div style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;">Kabir Khan - <strong>Microsoft</strong> <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/26" target="_blank"><small>(ref)</small></a></div>

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"_We adopted the **FastAPI** library to spawn a **REST** server that can be queried to obtain **predictions**. [for Ludwig]_"