Ferronit

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Your legacy Python service is hitting its performance ceiling. Ferronit moves the hot path — routing, request parsing, JSON, gzip, CORS, PostgreSQL — into a Rust core, while your handlers stay plain Python. A migration, not a rewrite.

Documentation: docs/ — quick start, routing, requests, dependency injection, the data layer (rawdb + rawmodel), DDD/DI, the Rust core, benchmarks, ASVS. (Docs are currently written in Russian.)

Installation

pip install ferronit        # installs the Python layer and the native core together

Ferronit is a single package built with maturin as a mixed project. The core (ferronit._core) is compiled with the abi3-py312 feature, so one wheel works on every CPython from 3.12 to 3.15+. Its only runtime dependencies are msgspec (fast JSON/validation) and asyncpg (the rawdb/rawmodel data layer).

# app.py
from ferronit import Ferronit

app = Ferronit()

@app.route("/hello/{name}")
async def hello(name: str):
    return {"hello": name}

ferronit dev                          # dev server (uvicorn, reload)
ferronit dev --server granian         # granian (Rust, ~4× faster)
ferronit run --workers 4              # production: granian, uvicorn fallback

Why it is fast

Routing is Rust matchit, effectively O(1): Ferronit does not degrade as the number of routes grows, while FastAPI loses up to 4× inside a single routing table. Methodology — ab (C client) only; the full analysis is in docs/benchmarks.md.

Data layer

Three options for different jobs — from "request → whole JSON response in Rust" to a full ORM. Which one to pick: docs/data/overview.md.

Development

poetry install --all-extras             # environment in .venv + all dependencies
PYO3_USE_ABI3_FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY=1 poetry run maturin develop --release   # build the Rust core
./scripts/check.sh                      # lint → types → docstrings → core build → tests
poetry run pytest tests/ -q             # 263 tests

Poetry manages the environment (poetry.toml keeps the venv inside the project), while the wheel carrying the Rust core is built by maturin (see [tool.maturin] in pyproject.toml), so Poetry itself never installs the project.

• AGENTS.md — guidance for code agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, …).
• examples/ — minimal, DI, LLM + SSE, RAG, WebSocket; examples/app.py is the DDD example.
• The package ships py.typed; type stubs for the Rust core live in ferronit/_core.pyi.
• bench/ — the measurement rig behind every number above; not part of the package.

Release

# the version lives in two files: ferronit/__init__.py and ferronit-rs/Cargo.toml
git tag -a v0.12.0 -m "Ferronit 0.12.0" && git push origin v0.12.0

Pushing a v* tag triggers .github/workflows/release.yml: checks and tests → wheels (Linux glibc/musl, macOS, Windows) and sdist → GitHub Release with the artifacts → publish to PyPI (API token from the PYPI_API_TOKEN repository secret). If the tag version does not match Cargo.toml/__init__.py, the workflow fails before publishing anything.

Docker

docker build -t ferronit:0.12.0 .
docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 ferronit:0.12.0

License

Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE. Use, modification and distribution are permitted, including commercial use; copyright notices and the patent grant must be preserved.