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Falcon [](https://travis-ci.org/racker/falcon) [](https://coveralls.io/r/racker/falcon)
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### Design Goals ###
**Fast.** Cloud APIs need to turn around requests quickly, and make efficient use of hardware. This is particularly important when serving many concurrent requests. Falcon processes requests [several times faster][bench] than other popular web frameworks.