Building a Django API Framework Faster than FastAPI - Farhan Ali Raza
From Django Chat by William Vincent and Carlton Gibson
January 15, 2026 · 58 min · Episode 193
About this episode
Farhan Ali Raza discusses his contributions to Django and the development of a new API framework.
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.
People in this episode
Hosts: William Vincent, Carlton Gibson
Guest: Farhan Ali Raza
Topics covered
- Django
- API Frameworks
- Software Engineering
- Performance Benchmarking
- Open Source Projects
Keywords
- Django
- API
- django-bolt
- FastAPI
- software engineering
- performance
- Google Summer of Code
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Django, Google Summer of Code
Products: django-bolt, FastAPI
Places: Pakistan
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