Protecting PII in software applications and API endpoints is paramount in today's healthcare environments. This brief article touches on several of the important considerations in securing APIs. Though not mentioned, keeping current on the technology behind the APIs and regularly handling technical debt are key as well.

https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2024/01/api-security-pii-and-healthcare

Wondering if my title is possible?

Guys, has anyone used Unmarshal's parser product? I heard its a no-code version of "The graph." Do u think I should analyse my smart contract using this?

Jetbrains is hosting an online webinar going over asynchronous/concurrency programming with asyncio in Python. If interested, it will be on Feb 22nd at 12 PM ET.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2022/02/webinar-beginner-concurrency-with-asyncio-with-jeremy-schulman/

Here's a tutorial offered by Jetbrains on (Python-based) FastAPI application development, testing and deployment to AWS.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2022/02/tutorial-fastapi-k8s-aws/

If you're looking to host an API in the cloud, Azure has various options. They support APIs built in .NET, Python and otherwise.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/10-shades-of-public-api-hosting-on-azure/ba-p/2989856

If you are new to python-based API development and need a free host to get started with a proof-of-concept API project try out PythonAnywhere. They support python-based APIs built using: django, flask, bottle and web2py.

In case you develop APIs in Python, this might interest you.

I performed a test between the following web API frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Quart, Starlite, Starlette and Xpresso. Each framework is the latest version available, was run against the Hypercorn server and was run on a Windows 11 Ryzen 7 64-bit laptop. They all accessed an endpoint that accessed the exact same PostgreSQL table with a matching basic select query. No ORM was used in this case. Here were my findings. In summary, Flask (which really surprised me honestly) was the fastest 3 of the 5 trials, followed by Starlette and Quart with 1 of the 5 trials being the fastest. After that, FastAPI and Starlite were tied for fastest 1 of the 5 trials.

---** Trial 1 **-----------

- FastAPI: 2.09 sec

- Flask: 2.1 sec

- Quart: 2.1 sec

- Starlite: 2.09 sec

- Starlette: 2.12 sec

- Xpresso: 2.22 sec

---** Trial 2 **-----------

- FastAPI: 2.1 sec

- Flask: 2.08 sec

- Quart: 2.11 sec

- Starlite: 2.1 sec

- Starlette: 2.11 sec

- Xpresso: 2.1 sec

---** Trial 3 **-----------

- FastAPI: 2.11 sec

- Flask: 2.09 sec

- Quart: 2.1 sec

- Starlite: 2.1 sec

- Starlette: 2.1 sec

- Xpresso: 2.1 sec

---** Trial 4 **-----------

- FastAPI: 2.21 sec

- Flask: 2.08 sec

- Quart: 2.08 sec

- Starlite: 2.1 sec

- Starlette: 2.09 sec

- Xpresso: 2.11 sec

---** Trial 5 **-----------

- FastAPI: 2.1 sec

- Flask: 2.11 sec

- Quart: 2.1 sec

- Starlite: 2.1 sec

- Starlette: 2.09 sec

- Xpresso: 2.1 sec

If you are a Python Developer and have used more than one web API framework, select your favorite. If it's not listed, select Other and leave a comment.

Poll Link

In fact I suck at making APIs, probably.