Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza

Farhan is a software engineer from Pakistan who added template partials to Django 6.0 as part of a Google Summer of Code project. These days he is pushing the boundaries of what Django can do in a host of exciting new projects, most notably django-bolt, a fully typed API framework for Django that is faster than FastAPI on common performance benchmarks.

🔗 Links

• Farhan's personal site: https://www.farhana.li/
• Farhan's GitHub: https://github.com/FarhanAliRaza
• django-bolt: https://github.com/FarhanAliRaza/django-bolt
• django-repl: https://github.com/FarhanAliRaza/django-repl
• turbo-orm: https://github.com/FarhanAliRaza/turbo-orm
• bombardier: https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier
• Robyn web framework: https://robyn.tech/
• Reddit thread on Django Bolt vs Django Ninja vs FastAPI: https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/1pvhv7a/django_bolt_vs_django_ninja_vs_fast_api_vs/
• Developer Productivity AI Arena: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/10/28/introducing-developer-productivity-ai-arena-an-open-platform-for-ai-coding-agents-benchmarks/

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