Why developers like Falcon

What is Falcon?

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

Falcon is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.

Falcon is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Falcon's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Falcon?

Companies

23 companies reportedly use Falcon in their tech stacks, including Pier, Soomgo, and Aplines.

Pier

Soomgo

Aplines

CARFAX Europe GmbH

WorkGenius

Infinity

FiveStars

GapoWork

Scommerce

Developers

63 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Falcon.

Here is what i know

Python essentials

My Stack

VUBTimetable

My Stack

Pramantha

My Stack

ueni

Falcon Integrations

Python, h2oGPT, RAGstack, LLM Finetuning Hub, and Martian Model Router are some of the popular tools that integrate with Falcon. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Falcon.

Python

h2oGPT

RAGstack

LLM Finetuning Hub

Martian Model Router

Pros of Falcon

Python

FAST

Minimal

Open source

REST oriented

Well designed

Powerful

Really Light Weight

Documentation

Easy to develop and maintain applications

Easy to get started

Easy to deploy

Its simple while not limited

Faster

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Decisions about Falcon

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Falcon in their tech stack.

avy999

Jun 3, 2020 | 1 upvote · 11.8K views

Needs advice

Django

Falcon

and

Flask

I'm planning on building an android app using Flutter (I will be making ios too later) It's a social media type application. I'm confused about what framework to choose from Django, Flask and Falcon.

(please inform if I should provide more detail about something)

Ayah Sa'fin

Mar 18, 2020 | 4 upvotes · 42.7K views

Needs advice

Falcon

and

Phalcon

Hello All, I have concerns about which framework to use in my case. I'm working on a project that uses TensorFlow for implementing CNN and image processing, it also deals with a huge dataset. Shall I implement the rest APIs in Phalcon because of its speed and great performance or Falcon since I'm working with TensorFlow and doing image processing steps?

PS: APIs are to receive the image from the user, and call *.py files to execute image processing steps and CNN Thanks In Advance :D

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Falcon's Features

Intuitive routing via URI templates and resource classes
Easy access to headers and bodies through request and response classes
Idiomatic HTTP error responses via a handy exception base class
DRY request processing using global, resource, and method hooks
Snappy unit testing through WSGI helpers and mocks
20% speed boost when Cython is available
Python 2.6, Python 2.7, PyPy and Python 3.3/3.4 support

Falcon Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Falcon?

Flask

Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

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