Expanding to the Server with Swift & Kitura

The open-sourcing of Swift has given the mobile developer community the ability to take the language anywhere. Learning about the existence of Kitura had a profound effect on me, personally - it made me a full-stack developer by way of knowing the language I already know. In this talk, I'll show you how Kitura can empower you to take what you already know about Swift, and expand it to an entirely new domain.

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1. Expanding to the Server with Swift & Kitura David Okun, Developer Evangelist, IBM of 17 1
2. Agenda • AboutMe.swift • Why Swift? • Why Kitura? • Workshop & Live Coding of 17 2
3. 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 of 17 3
4. When you work with C++, no one cares about Swift. 4
5. of 17 5
6. Why Swift? of 17 6
7. of 17 7
8. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html of 17 8
9. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html of 17 9
10. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html of 17 10
11. Why Kitura? • Written like Express.js • IBM & Apple collaborate on Swift • Foundation just works • Libdispatch just works of 17 11
12. Developer Experience Client Side Data Side Server API Layer of 17 12
13. Before The Demo • What is an API contract? • What is a microservice? • What is even a Node.js? of 17 13
14. of 17 14 Cats API (Node.js) Bears API (Node.js) ??????? iOS Client
15. Recap • Swift performance makes it a hot candidate • Long term support = use your existing knowledge • This Kitura Demo: https://github.com/dokun1/ KituraMicroservicesDemo • http://www.kitura.io • Follow me on Twitter: @dokun24 15
16. Questions & Answers 16
17. Live Demo 17
18. Thank you!!! 18