Perplexity and FastAPI
1 slroger 1 6/20/2025, 8:59:47 PM
Why does Perplexity use FastAPI over say Django? Clearly they are doing well and could have done well with either but I'm curious why they went with FastAPI over a more tried and tested framework like Django. The only proof I've found they use FastAPI on the backend are the job postings.(https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/perplexityai/jobs/4601047007)
Comments (1)
minimaxir ยท 6h ago
Django is batteries included. Sometimes you don't need the batteries.