Building a Social Network in Swift

“But is it really ready for production?” Server-side Swift has come a long way in just a few years. Ian Partridge and David Okun show how full-stack Swift is ready for your next project, along with the open standards you can take advantage of as you go live on the cloud. Spend more time writing Swift and less time talking about it!

Presented at try! Swift Tokyo 2019.

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1. slack.kitura.io KITURA kitura.io Building a Social Network in Swift David Okun Developer advocate Kitura @dokun24 Ian Partridge Team lead Kitura @alfa
2. ? Standalone MBaaS Bespoke Mobile backends
3. Mobile backends
4. Fast startup Low memory Interoperability Microservices
5. bit.ly/swiftallegro Case study: Allegro
6. Cloud ready - out of the box
7. { "basePath" : "/", "info" : { "description" : "Generated by Kitura", "title" : "Kitura Project", "version" : "1.0" }, "paths" : { "/users" : { "get" : { "consumes" : [ "application/json" ], "produces" : [ "application/json" ], "responses" : { "200" : { "description" : “OK", "schema" : { “$ref" : “#/definitions/User" } } ... } } } } ...
8. Ecosystem momentum Swift Server Working Group (SSWG) ⌨ Language Server Protocol (LSP) Accelerated Linux releases More platforms
9. EmojiJournal: a Social Network in Swift
10. “But is it really ready for production?”
11. onlineswiftplayground.run
12. www.agenda.com
13. www.agenda.com
15. www.bankingofthings.io
17. Production monitoring: CPU 0.4% CPU
18. Production monitoring: RAM 25 MB