#188: Async for the Pythonic web with Sanic

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What do most web servers do most of the time? They wait. They wait on external systems while processing a request.

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0:00.0	What do web servers do most of the time?
0:02.4	They wait.
0:03.1	They wait on external systems while processing a request.
0:06.5	Think about a standard web request to an e-commerce site where you're logged in.
0:09.9	You send a session cookie and request to a URL.
0:13.4	It pulls a bunch of items from the database, maybe a Redis cache, and even talks to an external API.
0:18.7	And that is exactly the situation ASync I.O. is built for.
0:22.6	But to take advantage of it in the Python Web frameworks, the framework itself has to support
0:27.3	async view methods. That's what SANIC was built to do. On this episode, you'll meet Adam Hopkins,
0:32.7	who is leading the SANIC project. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 188 recorded November 27, 2018.
0:53.1	Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.
0:59.9	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
1:01.8	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M Kennedy.
1:03.9	Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm.
1:07.5	And follow the show on Twitter via At Talk Python.
1:10.3	Adam, welcome to Talk Python.
1:11.5	Thank you for having me.
1:12.6	I'm excited to be here.
1:13.6	Yeah, I'm excited to have you here.
1:15.3	I'm really excited to talk about asynchronous web frameworks with you in particular
1:19.7	Sannic.
1:20.3	But before we get to that story, let's start with yours.
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