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
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2. Agenda
   • AboutMe.swift
   • Why Swift?
   • Why Kitura?
   • Workshop & Live Coding
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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
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4. When you work
   with C++, no one
   cares about
   Swift.
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6. Why Swift?
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8. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html
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9. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html
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10. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html
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11. Why Kitura?
    • Written like Express.js
    • IBM & Apple collaborate on
    Swift
    • Foundation just works
    • Libdispatch just works
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12. Developer Experience
    Client Side Data Side
    Server API Layer
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13. Before The Demo
    • What is an API contract?
    • What is a microservice?
    • What is even a Node.js?
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    Cats API (Node.js)
    Bears API (Node.js)
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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
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16. Questions & Answers
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17. Live Demo
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18. Thank you!!!
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