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Kitura - What's Next?

Kitura - What's Next?

A talk given at ForwardSwift in SF on 2 March 2017 about Kitura and the future of Server Side Swift

David Okun

March 02, 2017
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  1. Agenda • Server Side Swift State of the Union •

    What is Kitura & how has it grown? • Kuery Demo • WebSockets Demo • ????????????? Demo • Fin @dokun24 2
  2. AboutMe.swift • Joined IBM November 2016 • Learned about Kitura

    February 2016 • Previously worked on Mobile Tech at IDscan Biometrics Ltd. (London, UK) • Introduced to server work by Parse @dokun24 of 17 3
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  4. Introducing…Kitura • Kitura is a RESTful API framework written in

    Swift • Open sourced February 2016 • v1.0 in September 2016 • Also introduced Bluemix Swift Runtime 7 @dokun24
  5. …and Kitura now • Stability alongside Swift 3, Foundation and

    LibDispatch • Support for most major DataStores • WebSockets • Protocol Buffers • Native Querying Language (Kuery) 11 @dokun24
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  7. Swift-Kuery • Kuery is a pluggable SQL database driver •

    Focus on making the API “Swifty” • Great to support an ORM buildout 13 @dokun24
  8. Before we start • PostgreSQL running locally on machine •

    Accessible at localhost:5432 15 @dokun24
  9. WebSocket Connections • Allows asynchronous sending and receiving of data

    packets through an opened connection • RFC 6455 18 @dokun24
  10. Serverless Swift!!! • Yep! • Uses Apache OpenWhisk, which just

    so happens to be deployed on… 21 @dokun24
  11. Before we start • Open an account on Bluemix 23

    @dokun24 https://console.ng.bluemix.net/registration
  12. Recap • Swift is maturing super fast • For Kitura:

    long term support = use your existing knowledge • https://www.github.com/dokun1 • http://www.kitura.io • https://console.ng.bluemix.net/registration 25 @dokun24