```Python hl_lines="13  15"
{!../../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial002.py!}
```

🚥 ⚠ 📉, `Request` 👐 🔜 ↔, 👥 💪 ✍ & ⚒ ⚙️ 📨 💪 🕐❔ 🚚 ❌:

```Python hl_lines="16-18"
{!../../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial002.py!}
```

## 🛃 `APIRoute` 🎓 📻

👆 💪 ⚒ `route_class` 🔢 `APIRouter`:

```Python hl_lines="26"
{!../../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial003.py!}
```

In this example, we'll use **SQLite**, because it uses a single file and Python has integrated support. So, you can copy this example and run it as is.

Later, for your production application, you might want to use a database server like **PostgreSQL**.

!!! tip

Marshmallow and Webargs provide validation, parsing and serialization as plug-ins.

But documentation is still missing. Then APISpec was created.

It is a plug-in for many frameworks (and there's a plug-in for Starlette too).

The way it works is that you write the definition of the schema using YAML format inside the docstring of each function handling a route.

And it generates OpenAPI schemas.

And then, Docker will be able to **use the cache for the next step** that downloads and install those dependencies. And here's where we **save a lot of time**. ✨ ...and avoid boredom waiting. 😪😆

Downloading and installing the package dependencies **could take minutes**, but using the **cache** would **take seconds** at most.

### Types and validation

These environment variables can only handle text strings, as they are external to Python and have to be compatible with other programs and the rest of the system (and even with different operating systems, as Linux, Windows, macOS).

But when checking benchmarks and comparisons you should keep the following in mind.

## Benchmarks and speed

When you check the benchmarks, it is common to see several tools of different types compared as equivalent.

Specifically, to see Uvicorn, Starlette and FastAPI compared together (among many other tools).

    But `open()` doesn't use `async` and `await`.

    So, we declare the event handler function with standard `def` instead of `async def`.

### `startup` and `shutdown` together

There's a high chance that the logic for your *startup* and *shutdown* is connected, you might want to start something and then finish it, acquire a resource and then release it, etc.

But Gunicorn supports working as a **process manager** and allowing users to tell it which specific **worker process class** to use. Then Gunicorn would start one or more **worker processes** using that class.

And **Uvicorn** has a **Gunicorn-compatible worker class**.

You would also have **inline errors** for everything.

And whenever you update the backend code, and **regenerate** the frontend, it would have any new *path operations* available as methods, the old ones removed, and any other change would be reflected on the generated code. 🤓

But in most of the cases where we need to do something like this, we want the model just to **filter/remove** some of the data as in this example.

And in those cases, we can use classes and inheritance to take advantage of function **type annotations** to get better support in the editor and tools, and still get the FastAPI **data filtering**.