Serverless FastAPI Development: Building Player FC API on AWS
It’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to build something simple, interesting and modern. Towards the backend of 2024 I stumbled across FastAPI and got excited, whilst I’ve built internal APIs at work before, I hadn’t yet created anything public facing.
Hello FastAPI!
FastAPI is a modern, powerful framework for building APIs with Python and it seemed perfect for what I wanted to build, an API for basic football player info. I initially dubbed it “Jugador FC” before settling for “Player FC API”.
“Some say ‘No player is bigger than the club.’ Let’s be real, modern day fans care more about players than the actual team most of the time.”
In this blog post I’ll walk you through how I built it, from local development all the way to deploying it on AWS.
