But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

!!! note
    If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

## Motivation

Let's start with a simple example:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial001.py!}
```

Calling this program outputs:

```
John Doe
```

The function does the following:

# Ztunnel

This document provides an overview of the architecture and design decisions around Ztunnel, the node-proxy component in ambient mode.

## Background and motivation

Motivations to implement ztunnel generally came from two areas.

First, and most importantly, it serves as a means to implement the real goal: waypoints.

			</exclusions>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>jakarta.activation</groupId>
			<artifactId>jakarta.activation-api</artifactId>
			<version>${jakarta.activation.api.version}</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.sun.activation</groupId>
			<artifactId>jakarta.activation</artifactId>
			<version>${jakarta.activation.version}</version>
		</dependency>

		<!-- logging -->
		<dependency>

        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>create-distribution-in-dir</id>
      <activation>
        <property>
          <name>distributionTargetDir</name>
        </property>
      </activation>
      <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

    val jacksonCore = "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core"
    val jacksonDatabind = "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind"
    val jakartaActivation = "com.sun.activation:jakarta.activation"
    val jakartaXmlBind = "jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api"
    val jansi = "org.fusesource.jansi:jansi"
    val jatl = "com.googlecode.jatl:jatl"
    val javaPoet = "com.squareup:javapoet"