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Falcon

High-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends
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What is Falcon?

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.
Falcon is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Falcon is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Falcon's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Falcon?

Companies
23 companies reportedly use Falcon in their tech stacks, including Pier, Soomgo, and Aplines.

Developers
63 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Falcon.

Falcon Integrations

Python, h2oGPT, RAGstack, LLM Finetuning Hub, and Martian Model Router are some of the popular tools that integrate with Falcon. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Falcon.
Pros of Falcon
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Python
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FAST
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Minimal
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Open source
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REST oriented
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Well designed
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Powerful
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Really Light Weight
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Documentation
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Easy to develop and maintain applications
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Easy to get started
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Easy to deploy
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Its simple while not limited
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Faster
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Decisions about Falcon

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Falcon in their tech stack.

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I'm planning on building an android app using Flutter (I will be making ios too later) It's a social media type application. I'm confused about what framework to choose from Django, Flask and Falcon.

(please inform if I should provide more detail about something)

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Hello All, I have concerns about which framework to use in my case. I'm working on a project that uses TensorFlow for implementing CNN and image processing, it also deals with a huge dataset. Shall I implement the rest APIs in Phalcon because of its speed and great performance or Falcon since I'm working with TensorFlow and doing image processing steps?

PS: APIs are to receive the image from the user, and call *.py files to execute image processing steps and CNN Thanks In Advance :D

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Falcon's Features

  • Intuitive routing via URI templates and resource classes
  • Easy access to headers and bodies through request and response classes
  • Idiomatic HTTP error responses via a handy exception base class
  • DRY request processing using global, resource, and method hooks
  • Snappy unit testing through WSGI helpers and mocks
  • 20% speed boost when Cython is available
  • Python 2.6, Python 2.7, PyPy and Python 3.3/3.4 support

Falcon Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Falcon?
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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Falcon's Followers
201 developers follow Falcon to keep up with related blogs and decisions.