Here the `app` variable will be an "instance" of the class `FastAPI`.

This will be the main point of interaction to create all your API.

### Step 3: create a *path operation*

#### Path

"Path" here refers to the last part of the URL starting from the first `/`.

So, in a URL like:

```
https://example.com/items/foo
```

...the path would be:

```
/items/foo
```

!!! info

    ```console
    $ hypercorn main:app --bind 0.0.0.0:80

    Running on 0.0.0.0:8080 over http (CTRL + C to quit)
    ```

    </div>

!!! note
    The command `uvicorn main:app` refers to:

    * `main`: the file `main.py` (the Python "module").
    * `app`: the object created inside of `main.py` with the line `app = FastAPI()`.

    It is equivalent to:

    ```Python

            dependency.

            The term "scope" comes from the OAuth2 specification, it seems to be
            intentionaly vague and interpretable. It normally refers to permissions,
            in cases to roles.

            These scopes are integrated with OpenAPI (and the API docs at `/docs`).
            So they are visible in the OpenAPI specification.
            )

    !!! tip
        Prefer to use the `Annotated` version if possible.

    ```Python hl_lines="6"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/security/tutorial001.py!}
    ```

!!! tip
    Here `tokenUrl="token"` refers to a relative URL `token` that we haven't created yet. As it's a relative URL, it's equivalent to `./token`.

* A particular program while it is **running** on the operating system.
    * This doesn't refer to the file, nor to the code, it refers **specifically** to the thing that is being **executed** and managed by the operating system.
* Any program, any code, **can only do things** when it is being **executed**. So, when there's a **process running**.

this release is **compatibility** with Pydantic v1 and v2, to make sure your current apps keep working. Later there will be more focus on refactors, correctness, code improvements, and then **performance** improvements. Some third-party early beta testers that ran benchmarks on the beta releases of FastAPI reported improvements of **2x - 3x**. Which is not bad for just doing `pip install --upgrade fastapi pydantic`. This was not an official benchmark and I didn't check it myself, but it's a good sign....

  - author: Abhinav Tripathi - Microsoft Blogs
    link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azure-cosmos-db-python-and-fastapi/
    title: Write a Python data layer with Azure Cosmos DB and FastAPI
  - author: Donny Peeters
    author_link: https://github.com/Donnype
    link: https://bitestreams.com/blog/fastapi-sqlalchemy/
    title: 10 Tips for adding SQLAlchemy to FastAPI
  - author: Jessica Temporal

Next, it 🤖 takes the first task to finish (let's say, our "slow-file" 📝) and continues whatever it had to do with it.

That "wait for something else" normally refers to <abbr title="Input and Output">I/O</abbr> operations that are relatively "slow" (compared to the speed of the processor and the RAM memory), like waiting for:

* the data from the client to be sent through the network

In contrast to a "**container image**" that is the stored static contents, a "**container**" normally refers to the running instance, the thing that is being **executed**.