Kind of new to fastapi, I have a local toy fastapi app with an endpoint that will read in around 500-1000 (which might go up in the future) json data (each around 5-10kb) from local files. Given its I/O intensive nature, I am trying to use threads/threadpool in my endpoint to see if there is any improvement in loading speed, instead of sequentially read. So under the context of fastapi, should I use the old fashion ThreadPoolExecutor within my endpoint, or use asyncio.get_running_loop(). From my research, looks like asyncio.get_running_loop() suits I/O bound task in fast api better, and ThreadPoolExecutor seems have more boilerplate. Any hint is appreciated. Continue reading...
