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

## Benchmarks and speed

The main thing you need to run a **FastAPI** application (or any other ASGI application) in a remote server machine is an ASGI server program like **Uvicorn**, this is the one that comes by default in the `fastapi` command.

There are several alternatives, including:

* <a href="https://www.uvicorn.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Uvicorn</a>: a high performance ASGI server.

# Generate Clients

As **FastAPI** is based on the OpenAPI specification, you get automatic compatibility with many tools, including the automatic API docs (provided by Swagger UI).

One particular advantage that is not necessarily obvious is that you can **generate clients** (sometimes called <abbr title="Software Development Kits">**SDKs**</abbr> ) for your API, for many different **programming languages**.

## OpenAPI Client Generators

The only changes here are in the new testing file.

Your normal dependency `get_db()` would return a database session.

In the test, you could use a dependency override to return your *custom* database session instead of the one that would be used normally.

In this example we'll create a temporary database only for the tests.

## File structure

We create a new file at `sql_app/tests/test_sql_app.py`.

So the new file structure looks like:

## About proxies with a stripped path prefix

Keep in mind that a proxy with stripped path prefix is only one of the ways to configure it.

Probably in many cases the default will be that the proxy doesn't have a stripped path prefix.

次の章では、FastAPIアプリケーションをデプロイするための**具体的なレシピ**を紹介します。

しかし、今はこれらの重要な**コンセプトに基づくアイデア**を確認しましょう。これらのコンセプトは、他のどのタイプのWeb APIにも当てはまります。💡

## セキュリティ - HTTPS

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[前チャプターのHTTPSについて](https.md){.internal-link target=_blank}では、HTTPSがどのようにAPIを暗号化するのかについて学びました。

通常、アプリケーションサーバにとって**外部の**コンポーネントである**TLS Termination Proxy**によって提供されることが一般的です。このプロキシは通信の暗号化を担当します。

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!!! tip
    Every time you install a new package with `pip` under that environment, activate the environment again.

    This makes sure that if you use a terminal program installed by that package, you use the one from your local environment and not any other that could be installed globally.

### Install requirements using pip

After activating the environment as described above:

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) -> Union[DefaultPlaceholder, DefaultType]:
    """
    Pass items or `DefaultPlaceholder`s by descending priority.

    The first one to _not_ be a `DefaultPlaceholder` will be returned.

    Otherwise, the first item (a `DefaultPlaceholder`) will be returned.
    """
    items = (first_item,) + extra_items
    for item in items:

!!! check
    The way this dependency system is designed allows us to have different dependencies (different "dependables") that all return a `User` model.

    We are not restricted to having only one dependency that can return that type of data.

## Other models

### TLS with SNI Extension

**Only one process** in the server can be listening on a specific **port** in a specific **IP address**. There could be other processes listening on other ports in the same IP address, but only one for each combination of IP address and port.

TLS (HTTPS) uses the specific port `443` by default. So that's the port we would need.