Python · Senior · System design

You have a large Django monolith, and the team wants to rewrite it in FastAPI for async and performance. How would you make this decision, and how would you carry out the change?

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The interviewer is testing engineering maturity: whether you make an architectural decision based on measurements rather than trends, whether you understand the real limits of what async gains you, and whether you can carry out a large change without a big bang rewrite.

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